Syria's government is refusing U.N. demands to deliver aid to hundreds of thousands of people including many in Aleppo, the city at the center of an eruption of fighting in the past two weeks, U.N. humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland said on Wednesday. "We seem to be having new possible besieged...

The United States said on Wednesday it had agreed with Russia to extend a cessation of hostilities agreement to include Aleppo where intense day-long violence between Syrian rebels and government forces killed dozens of people. The State Department said the truce went into effect at 12:01 a.m....

Fierce clashes raged overnight on the edges of Syria's second city Aleppo after a major rebel offensive, an AFP correspondent said Wednesday. A coalition of opposition groups fighting under the name "Fatah Halab" -- or Aleppo Conquest -- launched the assault on President Bashar Assad's forces...

Writing by Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- A group of Syrian and Arab poets rallied in an online poetry event to draw attention to the deteriorating situation in Aleppo as regime backed by Russia wage brutal aerial campaign on rebel-held areas. The event was...