When a group of friends took their cameras to the streets of Damascus to document Syria's 2011 uprising, they could not have foretold how events would spiral out of control and change their lives forever. Obaidah Zytoon, a radio host with big dreams for her country, was full of hope for...

Nearly 1,000 people from Aleppo evacuated overnight after a ceasefire deal are held at an Iranian militia checkpoint outside the city, Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency quoted the head of the Turkish Red Crescent as saying on Wednesday. "These people had passed the Russian check point,"...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iranian militias in the eastern neighborhoods in Aleppo foiled the ceasefire agreement announced on Tuesday which states to evacuate all armed men, civilians, and injured from the eastern neighborhoods in Aleppo to Idlib city. The head of the Turkish Red Crescent as...

Turkey is talking to Russia and Iran to try to ensure a ceasefire in Aleppo holds and civilians and rebel fighters can be evacuated, despite efforts by the Syrian government to prevent it, Turkey's foreign minister said on Wednesday. The ceasefire, brokered on Tuesday by Turkey and Russia,...

Government forces resumed shelling of rebel-held eastern Aleppo districts on Wednesday, which stopped after about half an hour, Syrian rebel officials and witnesses told Reuters on Wednesday. "There is fierce bombardment by the regime forces on besieged Aleppo, using artillery, tanks, and...

Almost 6,000 civilians, among them 2,000 children, have left rebel-held districts of the Syrian city of Aleppo over the past 24 hours, Russia's defense ministry was quoted as saying on Wednesday by Interfax news agency. The defense ministry also said that over the same period 366 rebels...

The fall of the last rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo could seal the fate of the "Obama Doctrine," deepening the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in decades and staining U.S. President Barack Obama's legacy. With the U.S.-aligned rebels facing defeat by government forces backed...

The evacuation of rebel-held eastern Aleppo due to start at dawn has been delayed, perhaps until Thursday, with an opposition official blaming Iran and its Shiite militias allied to President Bashar Assad for the hold-up. A ceasefire agreement brokered by Russia, Assad's most powerful ally,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A rebel commander, in vocal message , told Zaman al-Wasl that rebels have reached a ceasefire agreement with the Syrian regime army to evacuate the war-torn eastern Aleppo neighborhoods early on Wednesday, heading next-door province of Idlib with their families and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A huge number of rebels who surrendered themselves to Assad forces and supporting militias are affiliated with the Air Force Security branch in Aleppo which is led by M.General Adeeb Salameh, well informed sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The sources indicated that the...

The U.N. human rights office says it has received reports of Syria's pro-government forces killing at least 82 civilians as they entered the last remaining strongholds of the rebels in eastern Aleppo. Spokesman Rupert Colville of the U.N. human rights office says the reports recount...

The International Committee of the Red Cross is urging those fighting in Syria's Aleppo to do all they can to protect and spare civilian lives. The ICRC says in a statement on Tuesday that thousands of people with no part in the violence "have literally nowhere safe to run." The dramatic...

Syria's army and its allies have taken full control over all the Aleppo districts abandoned by rebels during their retreat in the city, a Syrian military source said on Tuesday. On Monday rebel defences collapsed, leading to a broad army advance across more than half of the remaining...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Monday's death toll of Syria's regime offensive on eastern Aleppo topped 100 amid initial reports of collective field executions for entire families. Such a savage killing comes as pro-regime areas celebrate Aleppo victory when about 80,000 people have been blockaded in a...

At least 21 civilians including five children were killed Monday in airstrikes targeting ISIS's Syrian de facto capital of Raqqa, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was not able to determine who carried out the raids, but the city has been targeted regularly by aircraft...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-At least 55 civilians, including women and children, have been killed in new chemical attack by Syrian forces on Aqarbat town in Hama province, monitor and residents said. Local council in Aqarbat said the regime warplanes have targeted the town and surrounding villages...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's chief opposition coordinator Riad Hijab said Monday that defeat in Aleppo would not weaken the resolve of opponents of Bashar Assad to remove him from power. "If Assad and his allies think that a military advance in certain quarters of Aleppo will signify that...

Syrian rebels on Monday withdrew from six more neighbourhoods in their one-time bastion of east Aleppo in the face of advancing government troops, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "The battle of Aleppo has reached its end. It is just a matter of a small period of time, no more,...

The Syrian regime army and its allies are in the "final stages" of recapturing Aleppo after a sudden advance that has pushed rebels to the brink of collapse in a shrinking enclave, a Syrian general said on Monday. A Reuters journalist in the government-held zone said the bombardment of rebel...

At least 31 people were killed and dozens injured in fresh airstrikes on opposition-held areas in Syria’s northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, according to a pro-opposition civil defense official. Regime and Russian warplanes carried out several raids on opposition-held neighborhoods in...