This is Aleppo today. For the last 5 years, the Syrian city has been crumbling under conflict and intense shelling from Russian-backed government forces and rebels fighting against President Assad ...

The battle for Aleppo has reignited fears of a prolonged and intensified conflict in Syria, with broader regional repercussions. The timing of the offensive, coinciding with the weakening of ...

The 2016 battle for Aleppo was a turning point in the war between Syrian government forces and rebel fighters after 2011 protests against Assad’s rule turned into an all-out war. After appearing ...

A car bomb detonated near Aleppo on Monday, killing several people, mostly women, according to Syrian Civil Defense and a ...

ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers with Syria’s new government were speeding through the streets of Aleppo in pursuit of a man who had been spotted ...

The Battle of Aleppo, raging since 2012, has finally taken a U-turn, as Syrian government forces backed by pro-Iranian Shiite militias captured several key areas in the militant-controlled ...

A war monitor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the insurgents led by Salafi Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, – including Al-Qaeda's former Syria branch, Jabhat al-Nusra – ...

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Several regions of Syria are witnessing the worse fighting since the battle for Aleppo least year, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says. The humanitarian organisation expressed ...

VITAL supply convoys began to reach the Syrian city of Aleppo this weekend as fierce fighting continued in the province. Four civilians — including a child — were killed in the city yesterday when a ...

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