20/07/2016

A hardline Islamist rebel group announced on Tuesday the start of a battle to break the regime siege of rebel-held districts of Syria's second city Aleppo. Ahrar al-Sham, a leading rebel Salafist faction active in the northern…

Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionThe UN has warned that an estimated 70,000 civilians are trapped inside IS-held Manbij At least 56 civilians have died in US-led coalition air strikes near the Islamic State stronghold of…

Syrian crisis: Coalition air strikes near IS-held village in Aleppo kill dozens of civilians Children were among at least 56 civilians killed in coalition air strikes near a Syrian village held by the Islamic State group, the…

A young Syrian shepherd leads his flock on June 14, as smoke billows from a farm after a reported airstrike in Sheifuniya, near the rebel-held town of Douma, east of the capital Damascus. A U.S- led…

Videos have emerged online that appear to show Syrian rebels taunting and then beheading a boy they say is a captured Palestinian pro-government fighter. One video shows five men posing with the frightened child, who could be as…

Air strikes probably carried out by Russia killed 21 civilians on Tuesday in a rebel-held Syrian town in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said. "Twenty-one civilians, including six children, were killed presumably in…