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Russia, Syrian army pound rebels ahead of fighting halt

Russian warplanes bombed Syrian rebel-held areas in northwestern Syria and government forces pounded a suburb of the capital on Thursday, ahead of a planned halt to fighting which rebels predicted Damascus and Moscow would ignore. The "cessation of hostilities" agreed by the...

UN carries out first humanitarian airdrop in Syria

The United Nations on Wednesday carried out its first humanitarian airdrop in Syria to reach thousands of people facing severe food shortages in a city besieged by Islamic State jihadists. "Earlier this morning, a WFP plane dropped the first cargo of 21 tonnes of items into...