Michael Ignatieff and Leon Wieseltier (Washington Post)- As Russian planes decimate Aleppo, and hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria’s largest city prepare for encirclement, blockade and siege — and for the starvation and the barbarity that will inevitably follow —...

Kurdish fighters backed by Russian bombing raids have driven Syrian rebels from a former military air base near the border with Turkey, a group that monitors the war said on Thursday. Rebel groups have been distracted by a major offensive in the area by the Syrian army and its...

Damascus aims to secure Syria's border with Turkey and recapture the city of Aleppo with its latest military offensive, a top adviser to Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday. In an interview in her Damascus office, Bouthaina Shaaban held out little hope for diplomatic efforts to end...

Fifteen civilians were killed and another 17 injured on Tuesday when Russian warplanes struck a handful of opposition-held villages in Syria’s Idlib province, local Civil Defense sources told Anadolu Agency. According to the sources, Russian warplanes targeted residential areas in four...