News of the Day From Around the World

The final batch of opposition fighters and their families began leaving a besieged neighborhood in the central Syrian city of Homs on Saturday, a move that would bring the country’s third-largest city into full government control for the first time in years.

Government forces in recent years captured one Homs neighborhood after another, until opposition fighters were isolated in al-Waer; the siege of the district began in 2013.

3 Iraq bombing: A suicide bombing near the oil-rich city of Basra killed at least eight people as the Islamic State took the fight against Iraqi forces deep into the country’s south, a military commander said Saturday.

4 Libya attack: A spokesman for Libya’s army says the death toll from a militia attack on an air base in the country’s south has increased to 141, including two civilians, said Col. Ahmed Mosmary, spokesman for forces loyal to an east-based parliament.

Mosmary says the attack on Buraq al-Shati air base effectively ends the cease-fire brokered by the national unity government between militias and the forces commanded by army chief Gen. Khalifa Hifter in the area.

Military prosecutor Col. Odon Makutu Mwendele said Saturday two of the 16 suspects will face trial on war crimes charges including murder, mutilation, terrorism and supporting a rebel group.

Macedonia’s interior ministry says it has suspended 16 police officers, including a senior ministry official, over their failure to prevent an invasion of parliament by protesters.

Eleven police officers, four special police unit members and a senior ministry official have been suspended because they “passively observed a crowd who entered and moved freely within the parliament ... contrary to the police rule book and professional code of ethics,” the ministry said Saturday.