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Rubble at the end of the road for Aleppo returnees

Syrian businessman Alaa Samani and his wife Hanaa Ismail join bumper to bumper traffic heading into an Aleppo district recently retaken by the regime to check on their chocolate factory. "Everything was destroyed," says Samani, driving into the city that was once Syria's main economic hub....

NW Syria: 148,000 civilians displaced in six days

As Assad regime forces and its allies continue to target Idlib, northwestern Syria, an area covered by a nominal cease-fire, 148,000 more civilians have been displaced in the past six days, according to Syria's Response Coordination Group. With this latest figure, the number of displaced...

Russia, Turkey hold 2nd round of talks on Idlib

The second round of the Russian-Turkish consultations, aiming to ease the tense situation in the Syrian province of Idlib started in Moscow on Tuesday. The Russian delegation led by Presidential envoy for Syria Sergey Vershinin, and Turkish delegation headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat...

Mass grave found in Douma city

The Syrian regime army has discovered a mass grave containing around 70 bodies in a former rebel bastion near Damascus, the state news agency reported Monday. SANA said the victims found in the Eastern Ghouta region were "civilians and security personnel who were executed by terrorist...

Lavrov: Russian, Turkish forces in contact on Idlib

Russia said on Monday that its military representatives in Idlib were in constant contact with their Turkish counterparts on developments on the ground in Syria's northwestern province. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters in Munich, Germany that Moscow would host a fresh...

Russian airstrikes target 2 hospitals in Aleppo

Russian warplanes struck two hospitals, as well as residential areas, in Syria’s northern Aleppo province, an official said on Monday. According to Syria Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, airstrikes hit the hospitals in the northern town of Darat Izza near the Turkish...

Car bomb kills four people in Tel Abyad

A car bomb exploded Sunday in the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, near the Turkish border, killing four people, witnesses said Sunday. The Arab town, from which Turkish-backed forces last October pushed out the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, has seen a spate of car blasts that has killed dozens of...