'Terrorist rocket attack' kills six civilians in Syria's Aleppo: state media
Rockets fired by jihadis Sunday killed six civilians and wounded eight others in the government-held northern city of Aleppo, state news agency SANA reported. It said two neighborhoods were struck in the "terrorist rocket attack" and that one rocket hit the municipal building in the ...
U.S. says it targeted al-Qaida in northwest Syria in first such attack in two years
The United States said Monday it had carried out a strike against al-Qaida-linked jihadis in northwestern Syria, its first such operation there in two years. On another front in Syria's complex eight-year civil war, Israeli airstrikes killed 15 people including civilians late Sunday, a monitor ...
Syrian insurgents shell government-held rural area, killing 12
Syrian insurgents fired rockets into residential parts of the government-held northern province of Aleppo, striking a wedding party and killing at least 12 civilians and wounding 15, state media said Monday. The attack late Sunday took place in the village of Wadehi, south of Aleppo ...
Syria's ancient Aleppo market poised to regain its bustle in wake of years of war
On the domed roof of a historical market in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, architect Bassel al-Daher moves between laborers painstakingly working to erase the scars of war. Men wearing vests and helmets repair parts of the roof still bearing visible traces of the ...
50 killed as Syria clashes between rebels and jihadis intensify, spread to Idlib
Clashes between jihadis and rebels in northwestern Syria have killed almost 50 people over two days, a war monitor said Wednesday. Clashes flared Tuesday between al-Qaida-linked coalition Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and an alliance of rebel groups in western Aleppo province. On Wednesday the fighting spread ...
Pentagon warns Russia and Assad against tampering with site of alleged Syria chemical attack
The Pentagon warned Russia on Tuesday against interfering with the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria's regime-held city of Aleppo. Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has accused armed groups of carrying out a "toxic gas" attack Saturday that left dozens of people ...
Alleged Syria chemical attack, retaliatory Russian airstrikes seen imperiling Idlib rebel truce deal
A 10-week-old truce deal in northern Syria looked as precarious as ever Monday after an alleged chemical attack, which has already drawn retaliatory raids despite its origins being unclear. The exact circumstances of the purported attack on three districts of the government-held city of Aleppo ...
In abandoned villa, war-displaced Syrian kids study on the ground
In rebel-held northern Syria, displaced children sit or lie on the ground of an unfinished villa, bending over their notebooks to apply themselves as they write the day's lesson. Four teachers instruct around 100 children — girls and boys aged 6 to 12 — at ...
Syria evacuations resume, bringing Damascus-area town under Assad's control
The last rebel fighters have left the Syrian town of Zabadani near Damascus as part of a reciprocal evacuation deal for four besieged towns that had been interrupted after a bomb attack hit one convoy, state media and a war monitor said on Wednesday. Thousands ...
Western media peddles distorted view of Aleppo
Much of the coverage that the Western media has run on eastern Aleppo is propaganda produced produced by the rebels.
Bus torchings cloud Aleppo evacuation effort as Russia threatens to veto U.N. resolution for access
Convoys of evacuees traveled from a rebel-held area of Aleppo and from two Shiite villages besieged by insurgents on Monday after a days-long stand-off. Dozens of buses carrying thousands of people from Aleppo's tiny rebel zone reached insurgent areas of countryside to the west of ...
After fall of Aleppo, Syria's Assad still far from regaining his country
When President Bashar Assad turns from the wreckage of Aleppo to assert his authority across a fractured Syria, it will be as a figure who is virtually unassailable by rebels, but still faces great challenges in restoring the power of his state. The fall of ...
