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 —...

Four miners trapped underground for 36 days in a collapsed Chinese gypsum mine were pulled out late Friday, a rescue hailed as a "miracle" in a country with a poor track record on industrial accidents. The final operation to save the men trapped more than 200 meters (660 feet) underground took...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime allowed Wednesday fuel and gas trucks to enter besieged al-Waer neighborhood in Homs, local activists told Zaman al-Wasl. Three trucks loaded by fuel and 500 gas cylinders were entered to al-Awer in biding to the U.N.-brokered ceasefire reached last month....

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 53 people, mostly soldiers, were killed on Wednesday in the central province of Homs when a barrel-bomb factory exploded in a military base west of Homs city, well-informed source said. Regime forces and state-run media were very discreet over the huge explosion...