Syrian rebels were fighting pro-government militias on the southeastern edge of east Aleppo's opposition-held enclave on Tuesday, a rebel official said, as Damascus and its allies try to build on major gains in the city in recent days. A major assault by government forces backed by allied...

(Al Jazeera)- Syria's rebels lost all of the northern neighbourhoods of their stronghold in east Aleppo on Monday, as the army made significant advances in its offensive to recapture the entire city. The government gains have prompted an exodus of thousands of desperate civilians, some...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Regime militias and Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) monopolize the most important trinity in peoples’ lives; water, electricity and bread. This became a method to pressure the population and to lure them into joining these militias to militarize the society. The ones...

Every morning, Syrian trucks roll up to a car park near a Turkish border crossing, ready to take a consignment of UN aid back inside the war-torn country. But so far the cargo cannot reach the area where it is needed most -- the besieged rebel-held areas of eastern Aleppo where tens of...