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Aid workers question effectiveness of U.N. Syria aid

By Dasha Afanasieva GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - Seven weeks after U.N. aid trucks crossed from Turkey into Syria for the first time, aid workers and officials in this southern Turkish humanitarian hub still have no idea exactly where the supplies ended up. The convoy...

Blame traded over water shortage in Aleppo

Government and rebels accuse each other of being responsible for cutting water supply to Syrian city, observatory says. Residents of Aleppo, Syria's largest city, have been without water for a week because fighters have cut supplies into rebel and...

Syria jihadists ban mannequins in shops

AFP- Syria's most extreme jihadist faction issued a ban Monday on mannequins in shop displays and the sale of women's underwear to male customers, a monitoring group said. The decision by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in their northern stronghold of Raqa also...

Battles rage in eastern Syria, activists say

BEIRUT (AP) — Heavy fighting broke out Monday between rival jihadi groups in an oil-rich eastern Syrian province bordering Iraq, forcing many residents to flee, activists said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the fighting concentrated on the eastern...