The Syrian army captured the Dahiyet al-Assad district of western Aleppo on Saturday, reversing all the gains made by rebels two weeks into their counter-attack against government-held areas, a war monitor and rebel official said. State television said the army swept the suburban area for landmines after regaining full control.[…]
An attack by militants on a school in western Aleppo has claimed the lives of at least six children and injured many others. An RT crew visited the scene, as well as the hospital which received the dead and wounded following the deadly assault by rebels. The attack occurred when[…]
Russia announced it will broadcast live images of the evacuation of civilians and wounded people from besieged eastern Aleppo during a “humanitarian pause” it has scheduled for Thursday. The planned pause would also be extended for an additional three hours to run from 0500 to 1600 GMT, General Sergey Rudskoi[…]
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday that the Syrian army’s capture of Aleppo, which has come under renewed bombardment in an effort to seize its rebel-held sector, would be “a very important springboard” to pushing “terrorists” back to Turkey. Rescue workers said that Syria’s military backed by Russian warplanes[…]
Syria’s Aleppo city was the scene of mass carnage on Wednesday with at least 81 civilians killed in air strikes on rebel-held neighbourhoods, a local rescue group said. First responders said the divided city’s eastern sector was pounded by more than 50 Russian and Syrian government missile attacks throughout the[…]
A Syrian White Helmets rescue centre was targeted on Friday morning in Syria even as the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, for which the civil rescue group was nominated, was taking place in Oslo, Norway. Announcing the attacks on their social media page, the White Helmets, also known as the Syrian[…]
At least two barrel bombs have hit the largest hospital in the rebel-held eastern side of Syria’s Aleppo city, according to the medical organisation that supports it. The facility, known as M10, had already been hit by heavy bombardment on Wednesday along with the second-largest hospital in the area in[…]
While world leaders mull over how to respond to the military bombardment of Aleppo in Syria, religious leaders have renewed a call for people to prayer for the war ravaged country. At his General Audience on Wednesday, the Pope Francis once again appealed for peace in Syria. “Dramatic news continues to reach me[…]
The Syrian army and its allies fought intense clashes with rebels in opposition-held areas of Aleppo on Tuesday, as the government began what appeared to be a three-pronged ground assault following days of devastating air attacks on civilian areas. Syrian government forces were reported to have taken the al-Farafra area,[…]
Hospitals are struggling to cope in Syria’s Aleppo as government and Russian fighter jets continued to pound its rebel-held east, killing more than 200 people in under a week. Al Jazeera’s Amr al-Halabi, reporting from a makeshift hospital in the city, described a bleak situation as the hospital overflowed with[…]
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