More than 300 people have been killed in a week of air raids on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo and nearby towns by President Bashar Assad’s forces, a monitoring group said on Monday. Many of the casualties, who included scores of women and children, were...

 Syrian forces are "wreaking disaster" on Aleppo, killing hundreds in air strikes on the city, Human Rights Watch said Saturday, as peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held talks with Iran's foreign minister.    "The Syrian air force is either criminally...

Rocket fire against government-held areas of Syria's main northern city of Aleppo killed at least 18 people on Wednesday, a monitoring group said. Among the dead were "five regime troops, including an officer," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The attack on the Furqan...

The United States will destroy the most dangerous of Syria's chemical weapon stockpile on a ship at sea, the world's chemical watchdog said on Saturday.   "The neutralisation operations will be conducted on a US vessel at sea using hydrolysis," the Organisation...