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The Latest: UN says it wasn’t consulted on Syria-Daraya deal

Aid ambulances stage in Daraya, a blockaded Damascus suburb, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. The development in the Daraya suburb is part of an agreement struck between the rebels and the government of President Bashar Assad. Rebels in agreed to evacuate after four years of grueling bombardment and a crippling siege that has left the sprawling suburb southwest of the capital in ruins.(AP Photo)
Aid ambulances stage in Daraya, a blockaded Damascus suburb, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2016. The development in the Daraya suburb is part of an agreement struck between the rebels and the government of President Bashar Assad. Rebels in agreed to evacuate after four years of grueling bombardment and a crippling siege that has left the sprawling suburb southwest of the capital in ruins.(AP Photo)

By Associated Press 2 min read

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.