In breaking a Syrian government siege on opposition-held areas of Aleppo, insurgents have set back President Bashar al-Assad's hopes of using Russian air power to reclaim a vital city and speed the end of the five-year conflict. The sudden advance by fighters from western Syria into a military...

At least four people died and many suffered breathing difficulties when a gas, believed to be chlorine, was dropped alongside barrel bombs on a neighborhood of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday, a hospital and a civil defense group told Reuters. Hamza Khatib, the manager of Al Quds...

Russia said on Wednesday there would be daily three-hour ceasefires in Syria's Aleppo starting Thursday to allow humanitarian convoys to enter the city safely, a proposal which the United Nations said it would consider. Aleppo is split into rebel- and government-held . The rebel-held east,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes have carried out at least 70 raids on northern Idlib province on Wednesday, killing more than 18 people, civil defense workers and monitor said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 10 people were killed in Idlib city when regime jets fired missiles...