In breaking a Syrian government siege on opposition-held areas of Aleppo, insurgents have set back President Bashar al-Assad's hopes of using Russian air power to reclaim a vital city and speed the end of the five-year conflict. The sudden advance by fighters from western Syria into a military...

Russia said on Wednesday there would be daily three-hour ceasefires in Syria's Aleppo starting Thursday to allow humanitarian convoys to enter the city safely, a proposal which the United Nations said it would consider. Aleppo is split into rebel- and government-held . The rebel-held east,...

Saudi Arabia intercepted two ballistic missiles fired at the kingdom by Yemen's armed Houthi movement on Wednesday, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV reported. The attack follows renewed air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition on the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Thirteen civilians...

Writing by Pilot Colonel Ismail Ayoub (Zaman al-Wasl)- What the Syrian resistance factions did in south Aleppo cannot be considered a surprise attack or in the absence of time or place. Nor a lethal weapon was used to seal the battle. What happened in the south of Aleppo was an attack prepared...