Russian airstrikes in Syria kill 15 civilians as humanitarian crisis deepens, monitor says
Russian airstrikes killed at least 15 civilians Tuesday in northwestern Syria, as renewed violence tightened the noose around the country's last major rebel-held bastion and deepened an already dire humanitarian crisis. Retaliatory rocket attacks blamed on rebels and jihadis killed three more civilians in the ...
Russian airstrikes kill seven civilians in northwest Syria's Aleppo province despite truce: monitor
At least seven civilians, including five children, were killed Monday in airstrikes on northwest Syria by regime ally Russia despite a truce declared by Moscow, a war monitor said. The raids hit several villages held by jihadis and rebels in the western countryside of Aleppo ...
59 fighters killed in northwest Syria clashes between regime forces and insurgents
Clashes between regime loyalists and insurgents in rebel-held northwest Syria killed 59 combatants on Tuesday, a war monitor said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a jihadi group led by Syria's former al-Qaida affiliate, has since January controlled most of Idlib province as well as parts of ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Syrian army takes key Aleppo district as Russia readies renewed airstrikes
The Syrian army said it had taken a strategic district of Aleppo on Tuesday in what would mark the most important advance in the divided city by Damascus and its allies in weeks, but rebels said the battle was not over. The 1070 Apartments district ...
Syrian rebels opened a new front in Aleppo as fighting spread on the third day of a major insurgent counterattack to break the government's siege of the opposition-held part of the city, and each side accused the other of using poison gas. The rebels, including ...
