By Louisa Loveluck and Ben Farmer (The Daily Telegraph)- Senior British politicians are leading calls for the RAF to drop aid to a besieged Syrian town where thousands of civilians are starving to death....
A U.N. plan to suspend Syria 's nearly five-year-old civil war calls for listing which militant groups may be fought despite an eventual ceasefire, one of the toughest issues vexing diplomats trying to end the conflict. A U.N. draft discussion paper obtained by Reuters includes...
Iran denied Thursday that its Revolutionary Guards launched rockets near the U.S. aircraft-carrier Harry S. Truman and other warships as they were entering the Gulf Saturday, rejecting a U.S. report as "psychological warfare". "The naval forces of the Guards have not had any...
(The Guardian)- Three months of Russian airstrikes in Syria have killed more than 2,300 people, a third of them civilians, a monitoring group has said. Russia began conducting its air war in Syria on 30 September in support of its embattled ally, President Bashar al-Assad. According to the...
