A concrete wall being built to stop illegal crossings along the length of Turkey's 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria will be finished by the end of February, an official at a Turkish state institution with knowledge of the project said on Wednesday. Ankara has long been under pressure from...
A Russian airstrike on northern Syria’s Aleppo city on Tuesday has killed the mother and twin sister of six-year old child Sabah Sheikh Qassem. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, pro-opposition defense official Mohammed Novlo said Russian jet fighters struck a 5-floor building -- where Qassem’s...
EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides on Wednesday stressed the urgent need to end the Syrian civil war, decrying attacks on aid convoys. "When convoys are deliberately shot at, it becomes virtually impossible to deliver aid. There has never been a...
Two hospitals were damaged and a bakery hit in bombardments of rebel-held eastern Aleppo early on Wednesday, residents said, as Syrian government forces pressed their Russian-backed campaign to retake the whole city. At least six people were killed by artillery shelling in the al-Maadi...
