At least 18 people were killed on Friday when airstrikes hit several rebel-held neighbourhoods in Syria’s contested northern city of Aleppo, anti-government activists said, an escalation that placed added strain on a fragile cease-fire…
At least 46 people were killed in twin car bomb blasts that hit Syria’s Homs on Sunday in one of the deadliest such attacks in the city…
The rapid advance of US-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, taking advantage of Russian air strikes to seize territory near the Turkish border, has infuriated Ankara and threatened to drive a wedge between NATO allies…
At least 23 civilians were killed when missiles hit three hospitals and a school in rebel-held Syrian towns on Monday, residents said, as Russian-backed Syrian troops intensified their push toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo…
The Turkish army struck positions of Kurdish fighters inside Syria for a second day Sunday in response to incoming fire, state media said, as an explosive standoff between Ankara and Syrian Kurds intensified…
Russian president Vladimir Putin and US president Barack Obama agreed to intensify diplomatic and other cooperation to implement an agreement on Syria struck at talks in Munich, the Kremlin said on Sunday…
President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to recapture the whole of Syria and keep ‘fighting terrorism’ while also negotiating an end to the war, as international pressure mounts for a ceasefire…
World powers on Friday agreed an ambitious plan to cease hostilities in war-racked Syria within a week and dramatically ramp up humanitarian access at talks in Munich aimed at ending the five-year war…
Major powers agreed on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged Syrian towns…
Canada announced Monday it will end air strikes targeting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and bring home its six fighter jets on February 22, fulfilling a campaign promise made by prime minister Justin Trudeau…
An international human rights group says Syrian government forces and the Russian military have been carrying out daily cluster bomb attacks over the past few weeks. The Human Rights Watch report, released Monday…
A car bomb driven by a suicide attacker exploded Tuesday near a police officers’ club in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing at least 10 people and causing wide material damage…
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday Canada would pull out six jets that have been bombing targets in Iraq and Syria, ending a controversial combat role in the fight against Islamic State…
DEFENCE secretary Ashton Carter last October said in a little noticed comment that the United States was ready to take ‘direct action on the ground’ in Syria. Vice president Joe Biden said in Istanbul last month that if peace talks in Geneva failed…
Saudi Arabia is ready to join any ground operation the US-led coalition against the militant Islamic State group in Syria might decide on, a general from the kingdom said on Thursday…
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said Friday that Russia’s air strikes in Syria targeting rebel forces are ‘undermining’ efforts to find a non-military solution to the war, reports AFP…
Syria’s government and the opposition have blamed each other for the suspension of peace talks in Geneva…
The United Nations strained to keep faltering Syrian peace talks alive on Wednesday as Damascus tried to press home gains against rebels and its ally Russia said its air strikes would go on until ‘terrorists’ were defeated…
The UN human rights chief said on Monday those committing crimes against humanity in Syria’s brutal war should not be let off under any deal, as peace talks struggled in Geneva…
A mother who took her toddler to Syria and joined the Islamic State (IS) group was sentenced to six years in prison on Monday after becoming the first British woman to be convicted after returning home…
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