More and more foreign ISIS fighters are returning to European countries that want nothing to do with them.
Over 1400 militants and members of their families left al-Waer neighborhood in the Western outskirts of Homs city.
Palestine authorities are calling on the international community to exert pressure on Israel to allow Palestinian refugees in war-torn countries in the region to enter their homeland.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who has been in Germany for medical treatment since December 2012, will return home on Saturday, his party said in a statement.
Hundreds of people displaced by three years of violence in central Homs returned for the first time Friday, as the Syrian army regained control, reported an Agence France-Presse correspondent at the scene.
Around 250 British militants have returned to the UK after training and fighting in Syria, a senior Whitehall security official told the Sunday Times.
European ambassadors and intelligence officials are making discreet trips to Damascus in a bid to resume contacts with the Syrian officials after years of outspoken support for the opposition, diplomats say.
A court order to detain ousted president Mohamed Morsi for alleged crimes during the 2011 revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak signaled that the regime of the former strongman was "back in full force" in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood said Friday.