Most returned to Aleppo, Hama, Homs and Damascus, it said, on the view that security had improved in parts of the country.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will chair a close-door high level meeting in the Foreign Office on Friday to review major foreign policy contours.
Dozens of civilians fled in the direction of the Iraqi forces, mostly women and children, some wounded by insurgents fire, thirsty and tired.
A landslide triggered by rains en route the cave shrine of Mata Vaishnodevi in Trikuta hills of Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir left a woman dead and eight others injured on Friday.
"In the next few days, we will announce the final victory over Daesh," Staff Lieutenant General Abdulghani al-Assadi told AFP in Mosul, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.
At least 30 police, many with video cameras, filmed the parents as they chanted slogans about allowing their children to go to their local school.
In a circular, the ministry said all NGOs which were registered under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) should receive donations from abroad in a single designated bank account.
As U.S. officials investigated in January the FSB`s alleged role in election cyber attacks, U.S. technology firms were quietly lobbying the government to soften a ban on dealing with the Russian spy agency, people with direct knowledge of the effort told Reuters.
Top seed Murray will start his campaign on Monday against a qualifier while second seed Djokovic tackles Slovakia`s Martin Klizan before a tricky possible third round clash with old rival Juan Martin del Potro.
After 17 tumultuous years, a nationwide Goods and Services Tax (GST) will rollout from midnight tonight, overhauling India's convoluted indirect taxation system and unifying the USD 2 trillion economy with 1.3 billion people into a single market.
Having joined the race to buy out Air India, IndiGo President Aditya Ghosh has told employees that it will not embark on the journey if it is not profitable and jeopardises interests of the airline.
Cricket Australia said the union had refused to negotiate, leaving no chance for a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) to be struck before the midnight deadline on Friday.
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres arrived in Switzerland on Friday to give a boost to pivotal talks aimed at reuniting the Mediterranean island of Cyprus after more than four decades of bitter division.
Consumer price inflation in the 19-nation single currency bloc fell to 1.3 percent from 1.4 percent in May and compared with 1.9 percent in April, the official Eurostat statistics agency said.
The counting of votes for the second round of Nepal local elections began on Friday.
Simone Veil, a former magistrate and Holocaust survivor best known in France for legalising abortion in the 1970s, died on Friday. She was 89 years old.
The decision comes in the wake of the face-off between Indian and Chinese troops over a disputed area along the Sino-Indian border.
On Thursday, China said the withdrawal of Indian troops from what it said was its territory was a "precondition" for a "meaningful dialogue" over the border stand-off.
The election-year bill was pushed by Merkel's leftist rivals, who pounced on comments she made early this week suggesting a policy U-turn -- a manoeuvre that left her conservative lawmakers fuming.
Iraq will declare victory in the eight-month battle to retake second city Mosul from jihadists in the "next few days," a senior commander said on Friday.
A Pakistani journalist was arrested in the city of Quetta earlier this week for allegedly writing against "national security institutions" on social media, the media reported.
With the biggest tax overhaul in the history of the Indian economy, the Goods and Services Tax (GST), just hours away from its rollout, industry experts are bracing for this `One Nation, One Tax Vision` of Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s government.
The new rules also laid out a range of issues that did not meet with approval, including violence, drug addiction, extramarital affairs and religious cults.
During the trial, the man denied the allegations against him but chose not to examine himself or any other witness in his defence.
The genesis of the flashpoint was China's attempts to build a road at a strategically key area of Donglong.
