Five people were killed and another 11 injured by airstrikes carried out by Russian warplanes on Sunday in Aleppo’s opposition-held Kallaseh district, according to local sources. Local civil defense officials told Anadolu Agency that the airstrikes had targeted residential parts of the...

The death toll from Saturday's air strikes on the Syrian city of Raqqa, de facto capital of the Islamic State group, has risen to 40 civilians, including eight children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday. The group, which monitors the conflict in Syria through...

(Washington Post)- When you are a major nuclear power and you want to make a secretive deployment to a faraway ally, what is the first thing you do? Draw up the terms, apparently, and sign a contract. That’s what the Kremlin did with Syria in August, according to an unusual...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 15 civilians have been killed on Saturday in Russian air strikes on rebel-held Aleppo, activists said. Seven people were killed in al-Sakhour neighborhood when Russian warplanes fired vacuum missile into the local marketplace, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said. 8 more...