BEIRUT (AP) - The Latest on developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local):
3:45 p.m.
The United Nations is calling for the protection of people being evacuated from a suburb of Damascus and says their departure must be voluntary.
A statement issued on Friday by office of the U.N. special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, says the U.N. was not consulted or involved in the negotiation of the deal reached between rebel factions and government forces in Daraya.
Under the terms of the agreement, some 700 gunmen and 4,000 civilians are to evacuate the ravaged and long-besieged suburb southwest of the Syrian capital.
The statement says "the world is watching." It describes the situation in Daraya as "extremely grave" and said it was "tragic" that repeated appeals to lift the siege of Daraya have never been heeded.
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3:30 p.m.
Syrian rebels and civilians have started leaving a ravaged and long-besieged suburb of Damascus as part of a deal struck with the government.
The first bus with rebels and their families emerged from inside Daraya on Friday, surrounded by armed Syrian army troops.
Under the agreement, the rebels will be allowed safe passage to the rebel-held northern province of Idlib, while the civilians will be taken to a shelter south of Daraya.
Daraya's rebels struck the deal late on Thursday, after four years of grueling bombardment and a crippling siege by government forces that left the sprawling suburb southwest of the capital in ruins.
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1 p.m.
The Turkish prime minister vows to continue military operations in Syria until there's no "terror" threat to Turkey from the war-torn neighbor.
Friday's remarks by Binali Yildirim follow Turkey's incursion into Syria. Ankara this week sent tanks across the border to help Syrian rebels retake the Islamic State-held town of Jarablus and contain the expansion of Syria's Kurds in an area bordering Turkey.
Yildirim says the Syrian Kurdish militia's goal is to carve out a separate state - a "dream" he insists "they will never achieve."
He says the Turkish cross-border operation would continue until "we ensure 100 percent our border security and the life and property of our people."
Yildirim says Turkish operations in Syria will continue until IS militants "and other terror entities are cleared from the region."