Russia said the Syrian army had begun to withdraw from a road into Aleppo on Thursday, a prerequisite for pressing ahead with international peacemaking efforts as the government and rebels accused each other of violating a truce. An organization that monitors the war also said the Syrian...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes bombed on Friday the village of Marshamsha and town of Tamana and other areas in southern countryside of Aleppo with vacuum bombs, resulted and severe damage to the civil defense centre in Idlib city, beside many breaches for the truce of hostility...

 Food aid for desperate civilians in eastern Aleppo remained stuck on the Syrian border Friday, the fourth morning of a fragile internationally-brokered truce in the war-ravaged country. An AFP correspondent said no movement could be seen on the rubble-strewn Castello Road, the main route...

(Washington Post)- The remains of three Americans who died in Syria after joining a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia to fight the Islamic State are expected to be repatriated Wednesday, members of their families and a congressional source said. The bodies of Levi Shirley, William Savage and Jordan...