(The Daily Star)- Syrian rebels Thursday launched a new wave of car bombs and rockets on Aleppo's western districts, redoubling their efforts to break the government's three-month siege of the city. An AFP photographer said government-held districts had been quiet throughout the night, but...

(Time)- The Russian president on Wednesday offered a new unilateral humanitarian pause for Syria’s war-ravaged Aleppo, urging rebels to use it to leave the city’s eastern, besieged districts. The Syrian rebels quickly dismissed Vladimir Putin’s initiative. Later in the day, at least...

 Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday threatened to cut millions of dollars in state funding for a children's foundation chaired by his cellist friend Sergei Roldugin, named by the Panama Papers as head of an offshore empire. Roldugin was said in the Panama Papers – leaked in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- As changing distribution of power within the city of Aleppo appeared to have stopped, western and Arab media began speaking about a stop in the Great Epic Battle of Aleppo in conjunction with a Turkish newspaper publishing leaked documents of an American-Russian deal about...