A senior rebel commander said on Friday that Syrian government forces would never be able to capture Aleppo's opposition-held east, more than three weeks into a ferocious offensive, but a military source said the operation was going as planned. Russian air strikes were proving of little help...

The Syrian refugee suspected of planning to bomb a Berlin airport was radicalised only after arriving in Germany, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, citing the suspect's brother who still lives in Syria. Jaber Albakr committed suicide in prison in Leipzig on Wednesday after two fellow...

Humanitarian aid for the Syrian province of Aleppo is currently stuck at the Turkish border, said a UN official on Friday. “Twenty UN humanitarian aid trucks have been stuck at the Turkish-Syrian border and aid supply cannot be reached to the east of Aleppo neither by air nor by land,”...

Syrian opposition activists are reporting intense airstrikes on rebel-held neighborhoods of the northern city of Aleppo amid clashes between government forces and rebels. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Friday reported dozens of overnight airstrikes on eastern...