BEIRUT (AP) — Bashar Assad made a rare visit to the northern province of Aleppo on Friday to inaugurate a power station that was once held by insurgents and suffered wide damages during the war, state media reported. Government-held parts of Syria endure more than 12 hours of power cuts a...

The U.N. Security Council has called a meeting for Friday after having to put off a vote on extending humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey when no compromise could be reach on how long it would run. Russia, one of the council's five members with veto power,...

The Syria Response Coordinators Team confirmed that the violations of the ceasefire agreement by the Syrian regime and Russia in northwest Syria are continuing without any deterrent to stop these attacks, the number of which exceeded 2,122 in six months.   The relief group stressed that...

As the U.N. Security Council prepares to vote Thursday on humanitarian aid deliveries to rebel-held northwest Syria from Turkey, Russia agreed to continue such deliveries but only for six months — not a year, as many U.N. Security Council members, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and more...