Syrian authorities closed Aleppo airport as well as all roads leading into the city on Saturday, three military sources told Reuters, as rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad said they had reached the heart of Aleppo. The opposition fighters, led by the opposition militant group Hayat...

Syrian opposition factions on Friday have freed dozens of prisoners in the northern city of Aleppo, as the Turkish-backed groups launched attacks on Aleppo for the first time in years. Informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl that the factions of the "Deterrence of Aggression" operations room...

At least four people have been killed as rebel groups launched attacks on Aleppo for the first time in years, Syrian state media reported, as the rebel forces ramped up their assault on government-held positions in the country’s northwest. The rebels launched a ground attack on the city of...

Turkish-backed factions reached Syria’s second city of Aleppo Friday, as they pressed a lightning offensive against forces of the Iranian- and Russian-backed government. The fighting is some of the deadliest in years, with 255 people killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human...

Four civilians, including two students, were killed on Friday in shelling by “terrorist groups” on the Syrian city of Aleppo’s University City, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported. Rebels led by militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Wednesday began an incursion into a dozen towns...

Russian and Syrian regime's war planes bombed rebel-held northwest Syria near the border with Turkey on Thursday to push back an insurgent offensive that captured territory for the first time in years, Syrian army and rebel sources said. Rebels led by militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on...

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Kioumars Pourhashemi was killed in the Syrian province of Aleppo by opposition forces, Iran’s SNN news agency reported on Thursday without giving further details. Fighters led by extremist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on Wednesday...

Syrian rebels in the last opposition enclave in northern Syria launched on Wednesday a wide-scale military operation against the Syrian army and seized territory in the first such advance in years, army and rebel sources said. The rebel offensive overran at least 10 areas under the control...

At least 15 Ankara-backed Syrian fighters were killed Sunday after Kurdish-led forces infiltrated their territory in the country's north, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said. Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who controls swathes of the country's...

A child was killed on Saturday when a landmine left over from the war exploded in an olive field in the northern Idlib province, the Syrian Civil Defense said. The boy, 13, was working as an olive picker and his 15-year-old brother was killed and injured when a landmine left over from the...

The UN voiced concern Friday that conditions were so dire in Syria that some Lebanese residents who had fled there seeking refuge from the Israel-Hezbollah war were opting to return to Lebanon. There are “Lebanese families who are beginning to take the very difficult and potentially...

A Syria war monitor said on Friday that Israeli strikes on the city of Palmyra this week killed 92 pro-Iran fighters, after a United Nations representative said they were likely the deadliest to date. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday’s attack targeted three sites in...

Israeli strikes killed 71 pro-Iran militants in the Syrian city of Palmyra, with more than a third of them identified as fighters from Iraq and Lebanon, a monitor said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said those killed in Wednesday’s strikes included 45 fighters from...

An Israeli attack on Syria’s historic city of Palmyra killed 36 people and wounded more than 50 on Wednesday after it hit residential buildings and an industrial zone, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported. The Israeli military declined to comment when asked about an earlier SANA...

A war monitor said Israeli strikes on central Syria’s Palmyra on Wednesday killed four pro-Iran fighters, while Syrian state media reported an unspecified number of wounded in the attack. “Four non-Syrian fighters from pro-Iran groups were killed and six others including civilians were...

Two senior Islamic Jihad figures were killed in an Israeli strike on Syria on Thursday, said a source from the Palestinian group which has fought against Israel in Gaza alongside Hamas. The source told AFP on Saturday that Abdel Aziz Minawi, a member of Islamic Jihad’s political bureau, and...

Fifteen people were killed and 16 injured in Israeli attacks on a number of residential buildings in suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus on Thursday, state news agency SANA reported, citing a Syrian military source. The buildings are located in the suburbs of Mazzeh and Qudsaya, both...

Syria's main highway linking Damascus and Homs was temporarily cut off after an Israeli strike targeted an aid gathering centre for displaced Lebanese south of the city of Homs, the Syrian regime’s news agency SANA reported on Monday. SANA reported that an Israeli attack targeted the...

The US conducted strikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria in response to attacks on US personnel, the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) said Monday. "Today, US CENTCOM forces conducted strikes against nine targets in two locations associated with Iranian groups in Syria in response to...

More than four months have passed since the previous regime government announced the conversion of in-kind support to financial support for bread, which asked citizens to open bank accounts within a period of three months, suggesting that cash support would be transferred at the end of this...