Six stories you may have missed because of US election Iraqi Kurdish forces seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul from ISIL, an official said While the US presidential race between Donald Trump and...
The Syrian army says it has taken a strategic district of Aleppo in what would mark the most important advance in the divided city by the government and its allies in weeks. However, anti-government...
ST. PETERSBURG — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived here Sunday for the 21st China-Russia Prime Ministers’ Regular Meeting and an official visit to the northern neighbor. During the trip, Li and...
Russia's seat on the UN Human Rights Council is under threat due to its support of the Syrian government's air campaign in Aleppo. More than 80 human rights and aid organisations, including Human...
Heavy clashes have been reported in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo after a three-day ceasefire ended on Saturday. The unilateral ceasefire was announced last week by Russia, which has been...
A "humanitarian pause" announced by Russia is to formally come into effect in Syria's city of Aleppo to allow civilians and rebels leave the city. Moscow earlier said air strikes by Russia and...
Fourteen members of the same family were killed in an air strike in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Monday, emergency service workers said, as the Syrian government pursued its Russian-backed campaign...
The small northern town holds great value for IS because of a prophecy of an apocalyptic battle Turkish-backed rebels have captured the symbolically important Syrian town of Dabiq from the Islamic...
President Vladimir Putin has dismissed suggestions that Russia could face war crimes charges over its bombardment of Syria's second city Aleppo. He told French media the accusations were "rhetoric"...
Russian and Syrian air raids on the rebel-held eastern half of the city of Aleppo have forced the closure of the largest hospital in the area and killed two people, a medical charity says. The Syrian...
Russia's increasing military action in Syria is forcing moderate elements within the Syrian opposition into the hands of extremists, a US state department spokesman has said. Mark Toner said renewed...
US President Barack Obama has expressed "deep concern" about the situation in rebel-held parts of Aleppo, amid an assault by Syrian government forces. Medics in the city are struggling to cope with...
UN chief Ban Ki-moon is "appalled by the chilling military escalation" in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, his spokesman says. Stephane Dujarric said the secretary-general was alarmed by reports...
The Syrian military has announced a new offensive in rebel-held eastern Aleppo, where a quarter of a million people are living under siege. Jets pounded rebel positions in the city on Wednesday night...
The UN has suspended all aid convoys in Syria after its lorries were attacked by warplanes near Aleppo on Monday. The convoy had received proper permits, and all warring parties - including Russia...
The US government has expressed "outrage" over an attack on an aid convoy near the Syrian city of Aleppo that, a war monitor says, left 12 dead. The UN has confirmed that the convoy was hit near the...
A US-led air attack in eastern Syria that killed dozens of government troops fighting so-called Islamic State has endangered an already shaky ceasefire deal, Russia says. The attack put "a very big...
US-led coalition air strikes have killed at least 62 Syrian troops fighting so-called Islamic State in the east, the Russian military says. Aircraft flew in from Iraq and bombed Syrian troops near...
A day of intense airstrikes Saturday on and around the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 45 people, according to opposition activists. The Aleppo Media Center, an activist collective, said 45...
A senior commander of the Syrian militant group formerly known as al-Nusra Front has been killed near Aleppo, rebel sources say. The group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham said on its Twitter account that...
