Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday that Moscow was ready to consider additional ways to "normalize" the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the ministry said. Lavrov told Kerry over the phone that the ceasefire agreement brokered by...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday announced he is setting up a board of inquiry to investigate the bombing of an aid convoy in Syria last week that killed 18 people. The internal UN panel "will ascertain the facts of the incident" on September 19 and report to Ban, who will "decide...
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has called for an immediate end to the Syrian regime’s heavy bombardment in Aleppo, which has killed at least 500 people in the past two weeks. “MSF demands that the Syrian and allied governments stop the bombing that is causing a bloodbath among...
Reporting by Ammar Bakkour (Zaman Al Wasl)-People in rebel-held areas sleep and wake up on the sounds of air strikes by the Syrian and Russian. Even they many times sleep and do not know if the light would come out and they still alive, Yusuf Khoja, a tailor for Aleppo described his daily...
