A top UN envoy on Wednesday pleaded with the Security Council to help break the siege of Aleppo, warning that residents of the Syrian city were at risk of extermination. "For the sake of humanity we call on -- we plead -- with the parties and those with influence to do everything in their...

Israeli jets fired two missiles from Lebanese airspace towards the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, early on Wednesday, the official Syrian news agency said, in a strike on an unknown target that caused loud explosions. The SANA news agency said the missiles struck the Sabboura town,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime shelling killed 21 civilians, including two children, in an eastern district of Aleppo early Wednesday, a monitoring group said as Damascus and its allies try to build on major gains in the city in recent days. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...

 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov said on Wednesday he hoped that the situation in Syria's Aleppo could be sorted out by the end of this year, the RIA news agency cited him as saying. "We are hoping for this of course," Bogdanov was quoted as saying, when asked if the...