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Civilians flee to southern Aleppo as regime advances

Syrian pro-government forces have pushed deeper into rebel-held eastern Aleppo, forcing civilians to flee to southern neighbourhoods to escape the onslaught as the regime pressed an assault to recapture the entire city. Recapturing east Aleppo would be the government's biggest victory yet in...

40 slain soldiers buried in Taurus in two weeks

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Bashar al-Assad's powerful stronghold of Tartus received 40 bodies for soldiers claimed to be killed in Aleppo and Palmyra battlefields, activists said. The daily coffins shipment has sparked state of anger despite regime striving to calm things down by rewards and...

Syrian regime urges rebels to quit East Aleppo

The Syrian regime has demanded rebels pull out of East Aleppo and and civilians leave the area, as Damascus continued with an offensive to recapture the city's opposition-held sector. The army, which has besieged the east for months, also demanded that rebels distribute food to civilians,...

U.N. aid reached Rastan town despite aerial bombing

(Zaman, Al Wasl)- First cross-line convoy in November entered the hard-to-reach town of Rastan in central Homs province with aid for 107,500 people, U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday. Local activists said 51 vehicles carrying food rations entered the...

Use of chlorine weapons suspected in east Aleppo

Containers of a chemical suspected to be chlorine were dropped by helicopters on rebel-held east Aleppo on Tuesday, causing breathing difficulties in some people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the local health authority said. The Britain-based war monitor said its network of...