VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis appealed on Wednesday for an immediate ceasefire in Syria, calling for ‘at least’ a truce enabling civilians, especially children, to...
SYRIA: Russian jets resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Tuesday after several days of relative calm, a rebel official and the Britain-based...
ALEPPO: Russian jets resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Tuesday after several days of relative calm, a rebel official and the Britain-based...
PARIS: France's President Francois Hollande warned on Saturday against a veto of a French-drafted UN Security Council resolution calling for an end to air raids...
ALEPPO: Syria's military announced Wednesday it was scaling back its bombardment of rebels in devastated Aleppo, in a surprise move nearly two weeks after...
BRUSSELS: US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday efforts to end Syria's war must continue despite Washington's decision to break off talks...
ALEPPO: Heavy shelling in Aleppo killed a young Syrian swimmer and her 12-year-old brother in the latest incident, reports said.
Mireille Hindoyan, a university student...
WASHINGTON: The United States warned Thursday that it is on the brink of ending talks with Russia over the assault on Aleppo, where the United Nations says a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding unlike any witnessed so far in Syria's brutal five-year war.
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations aid chief warned on Thursday that Aleppo faces a humanitarian catastrophe "unlike any" witnessed so far in Syria's brutal five-year war.
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attacks Wednesday on the two largest hospitals in rebel-held parts of Syria's Aleppo as "war crimes."
DAMASCUS: Syria's army took control of a rebel-held district in central Aleppo on Tuesday, after days of heavy air strikes that have killed dozens and sparked allegations of war crimes.
BEIRUT: Medical supplies were running out in the besieged rebel-held sector of Aleppo, with victims pouring into barely functioning hospitals as an all-out Russian-backed assault entered its fourth day and Moscow ignored Western pleas to stop.
UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES: The US accused Moscow of "barbarism" over the worsening carnage in Aleppo, as Syrian and Russian warplanes pounded the city in one of the heaviest bombing raids of the five-year war.
UNITED NATIONS: France's envoy to the United Nations asserted Sunday that war crimes were being committed in Syria's battered city of Aleppo, as the Security Council met for urgent talks on the escalating military campaign.
ALEPPO: UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Saturday he was "appalled by the chilling military escalation" in Syria's battleground city of Aleppo where residents cowered indoors as air strikes toppled buildings and killed at least 45 civilians.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: Aid convoys for four Syrian towns will be postponed as staff reassesses security after a deadly attack on relief trucks and intensified violence, a senior official from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday.
ALEPPO: Aid for the divided Syrian city of Aleppo was stuck on the Turkish border on the fifth day of a fragile ceasefire on Friday with rival factions arguing over how the supplies are to be delivered and violence increasingly undermining the truce.
BEIRUT, LEBANON: Dozens of people had to be treated for breathing problems in the Syrian battlefront city of Aleppo after regime helicopters dropped barrel bombs on a rebel-held district Tuesday, a monitor said.
ALEPPO: Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, one of the militant group's longest-serving and most prominent leaders, has been killed in Aleppo in Syria, its Amaq News Agency reported on Tuesday in a statement distributed by the group's supporters.