Aleppo is central to President Bashar al-Assad's goal of rescuing a viable state from the ruins of Syria; hence the grim message from his forces to its residents, that one equals five. "We told them every shell (they fire) equals five barrel bombs," said Amar, a local policeman in...

New satellite imagery, videos and eyewitness accounts reveal the indiscriminate nature of the government’s large-scale air campaign on opposition-held parts of Aleppo since November 2013. The attacks on populated areas in Aleppo and its countryside continue despite a UN Security...

Syrian troops backed by war planes battled on Monday to dislodge Islamist rebels from a border crossing and northern town in the coastal province of Latakia, heartland of President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority. Fighters from the Islamic Front and al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front...

Gebran Bassil, Lebanon's foreign minister, has warned of a "plot" to extend the stay of Syrian refugees sheltered in his country, with an aim to establish military blocs there. At least a million Syrians have sought asylum in neighbouring Lebanon as peaceful...