UN Backs Sending Monitors
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution calling for UN officials and others to monitor the mass evacuations from rebel-held east Aleppo and the safety of civilians still there. Some 13,000...
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France, Fearing Massacres, Asks UN To Monitor Aleppo Evacuation
France has presented a UN Security Council draft resolution on sending observers to Aleppo to monitor evacuations and report on the protection of Syrian civilians, according to the text obtained...
Syria Suspends Aleppo Evacuations, Blaming Rebels
The evacuation of civilians and rebel fighters from eastern Aleppo in Syria has come to a halt. Russia, which backs the Syrian government, says the operation to remove fighters and their families...
Syria Suspends Aleppo Evacuations, Blaming Rebels
The Syrian government has suspended the evacuation of civilians and fighters from eastern Aleppo, accusing rebels of breaking terms of the deal. Government sources said rebels had blocked the...
EU Extends Russia Sanctions Over Ukraine
EU leaders have agreed to extend economic sanctions against Russia for six more months. Earlier, France and Germany complained that the Minsk peace deal for Ukraine was still not being fulfilled....
One Killed As Aleppo Medical Convoy Comes Under Fire
Ambulances trying to evacuate people from rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Thursday came under fire from fighters loyal to the Syrian government, who killed at least one person, a rescue service...
Aleppo Evacuation Deal Back On
A deal to evacuate the last rebel-held part of eastern Aleppo is back on, opposition fighters say, a day after a previous agreement fell through. Rebel fighters and civilians in the Syrian city had...
UN Chief Warns of Aleppo ‘atrocities’
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced alarm "over reports of atrocities against a large number of civilians" in Syria's city of Aleppo. Mr Ban urged all the sides, particularly Syria's...
IS Retakes Ancient Syrian City
The Islamic State (IS) group has retaken the Syrian city of Palmyra, hours after Russian air strikes appeared to have driven it back. The governor of Homs province, Talal Barazi, said government...
Islamic State Fighters Re-Enter Ancient Palmyra In Syria
A look inside the ruins after they were recaptured from so-called Islamic State in March Islamic State group fighters have re-entered Palmyra, nine months after losing the ancient Syrian desert city....
Islamic State Fighters ‘re-Enter Ancient Palmyra’ In Syria
Islamic State group fighters have re-entered Palmyra, nine months after losing the ancient Syrian desert city, activists say. IS held Palmyra and its nearby ruins for 10 months before it was...
Thousands Flee To Western Aleppo As Syrian Army Takes Over
As the Syrian army continues to fight its way through the old city of Aleppo, the tide of those fleeing for their lives has become a raging flood, an avalanche. Exhausted by the treacherous path and...
Russia Awards Medals To Dead and Wounded
The women were serving as medics at a field hospital in western Aleppo. A mortar struck the hospital on Monday. A Russian paediatrician seriously wounded in that attack also received the medal. A...
Aleppo Battle: Victory In City Would Be ‘huge Step’
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said a victory for his army in Aleppo would be a "huge step" towards ending the country's five-year civil war. But he added that the defeat of rebel groups in the...
Syria Rebels ‘withdraw From Old City’
Syrian rebels have left the last areas they held in Aleppo's old city, while calling for a five-day truce to allow the evacuation of civilians. Activist monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for...
Russia, China Vote Against Aleppo Ceasefire
Russia and China on Monday vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Syrian city of Aleppo to allow desperately needed aid into the war-ravaged zone. The...
Aleppo Defeat ‘not the End For Rebels’
The fall of rebel-held eastern Aleppo would not mean the end of the fight against President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian opposition's senior negotiator has told the BBC. George Sabra added, however,...
Syrian Forces Capture Key Aleppo Area
Syrian government forces have captured a key part of eastern Aleppo, splitting rebel-held territory in two. State TV said government troops were dismantling mines and explosives and continuing their...
Syria Army Makes Rapid Gains In Rebel-Held East Aleppo
Syrian government forces have been making rapid advances into eastern Aleppo, forcing thousands of civilians to flee. The Syrian army captured Jabal Badro on Sunday, a day after seizing Hanano...
Syria Forces ‘retake’ Second Aleppo Area
Syrian government forces have retaken a second rebel-held district in eastern Aleppo, military sources say. They say the army and its allies had "fully recaptured" Jabal Badro. Hours earlier, rebel...