Syrian government forces regained control of a key road to the northern city of Aleppo after making advances against Islamic State fighters on Monday, a monitoring group and state television Continue Reading
Fighting appeared to stop across most areas of western Syria on Saturday after a landmark “cessation of hostilities” came into effect under a U.S.-Russian plan which warring sides in the Continue Reading
Four Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) Boeing F-15S fighter aircraft arrived Feb. 26 at Turkey’s Incirlik Air Base to support the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Syria, soon Continue Reading
Russian warplanes fly in the sky over the Mediterranean coastal city of Latakia, Syria January 28, 2016. Russian warplanes bombed Syrian rebel-held areas in northwestern Syria and government forces pounded Continue Reading
The hospital in the northern Syrian town of Maarat al-Noaman was not just grazed, or damaged, by the airstrikes last week. It was completely destroyed, taking a direct hit that Continue Reading
Warring parties in Syria’s multifaceted civil war have continued to fight and jostle for territory on Friday ahead of a partial cease-fire that is supposed to come into effect at Continue Reading
President Barack Obama’s top military and intelligence advisers don’t believe Russia will abide by a just-announced cease-fire in Syria and want to ready plans to increase pressure on Moscow by Continue Reading
The United States and Russia announced plans for a ‘cessation of hostilities’ in Syria that would take effect on Saturday but exclude groups such as Islamic State and al Qaeda’s Continue Reading
The United States and Russia announced an agreement on Monday for a partial truce in Syria , though the caveats and cautious words on all sides underscored the obstacles in Continue Reading
The Syrian government said on Tuesday it accepted a halt to “combat operations” that does not include the Islamic State group, the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, or groups connected to Continue Reading
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria Continue Reading
“These were major attacks in Homs, two car bombs going off in a residential area” Bomb blasts in the Syrian cities of Homs and Damascus have left more than 100 Continue Reading
Turkish artillery fire from the border near Kilis toward northern Syria, in Kilis, Turkey on Monday. (Halit Onur Sandal/AP) BEIRUT — Russia and the United States appeared at odds Friday Continue Reading
A meeting of the international coordinating group charged with implementing a cease-fire in Syria was cancelled Friday, Russia’s foreign ministry said, delaying any reduction of hostilities and raising further questions Continue Reading
The rapid advance of U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, taking advantage of Russian air strikes to seize territory near the Turkish border, has infuriated Ankara and threatened to drive Continue Reading
Humanitarian aid has reached besieged areas of Syria after trucks filled with supplies left Damascus, as the United Nations said a task force seeking humanitarian access throughout the conflict-torn country Continue Reading
Image caption Muadhamiya, near Damascus, is one of the areas due to receive help The Syrian government has approved humanitarian access to seven besieged areas, the UN has said. Convoys Continue Reading
Turkey amplified the big-power tensions over the increasingly chaotic war in Syria on Tuesday, saying it is in discussions with allies, including the United States, over collaborating on a military Continue Reading
Turkish artillery has returned fire “in kind” into Syria, military sources said on Tuesday, marking its fourth straight day of shelling across the border. Turkey on Monday warned Kurdish militia Continue Reading
Turkish Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz denied a report that some Turkish soldiers had entered Syria at the weekend and said Ankara was not considering sending troops into its neighbor, the Continue Reading
Turkish Defence Minister Ismet Yilmaz denied a report that some Turkish soldiers had entered Syria at the weekend and said Ankara was not considering sending troops into its neighbor, the Continue Reading
The failure of world powers to quell the five-year conflict in Syria , the Russian military intervention there and the spread of Islamic terrorism overshadowed an annual security conference here, Continue Reading
The Latest on the conflict in Syria and international diplomatic efforts to end the violence (all times local): 10:30 p.m. A medical aid organization estimates that more than 100,000 people Continue Reading
Questions about how and when a Syrian truce will be implemented deepened skepticism that the cease-fire will work, as Russian and Syrian warplanes on Friday sustained their relentless bombardment of Continue Reading
The morning after the United States and Russia agreed on a cease-fire plan for Syria ’s nearly five-year-old war, a dozen Syrians huddled at the border gate here on Friday Continue Reading
Leaders of humanitarian aid organizations have, over the last few months, repeatedly implored the warring parties in Syria and their backers not to use the delivery of food and medicine Continue Reading
Major powers agreed on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged Syrian towns, but failed Continue Reading
Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey V. Lavrov, announced that they had agreed on the delivery over the next few days of desperately needed aid to Continue Reading
For months now the United States has insisted there can be no military solution to the Syrian civil war, only a political accord between President Bashar al-Assad and the fractured, Continue Reading
Allies of the United States sharply criticized the Obama administration’s Syria policy on Wednesday, when the outgoing foreign minister of France called it “ambiguous” and the president of Turkey said Continue Reading
Russia has proposed a March 1 ceasefire in Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday, but Washington believes Moscow is giving itself and the Syrian government three weeks to try to crush Continue Reading
Damascus aims to secure Syria’s border with Turkey and recapture the city of Aleppo with its latest military offensive, a top adviser to President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday. In Continue Reading
Tens of thousands of Syrians who were running for their lives piled up near the border crossing with Turkey here on Monday. They were fleeing a crushing wave of Russian Continue Reading
The Syrian army advanced toward the Turkish border on Monday in a major offensive backed by Russia and Iran that rebels say now threatens the future of their nearly five-year-old Continue Reading
Turkish aid workers have been setting up tents and distributing supplies for thousands of new Syrian refugees kept from entering Turkey at the border. Some 35,000 people fled a Syrian Continue Reading
Syrian government and allied forces pressed their most dramatic advance in months on Friday, sending insurgents scrambling and tens of thousands of civilians fleeing toward the border with Turkey. The Continue Reading
Tens of thousands of Syrians fled an intensifying Russian assault around Aleppo on Friday, and aid workers said they feared the major city could soon fall under a full government Continue Reading
Donor nations pledged on Thursday to give $11 billion in aid to Syrians by 2020 as world leaders tried to tackle the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, while Turkey reported a Continue Reading
The latest on fighting in Syria and Thursday’s Syria aid conference (all times local): 8:30 p.m. The aid group Mercy Corps says intensified airstrikes and fighting around Aleppo have cut Continue Reading
Four Syrian rebel commanders huddled in a knot, all broad shoulders and shiny gray suits, surveying the hotel lounge. Gigantic portraits of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix gazed down at Continue Reading
Istanbul (CNN)Turkish forces aren’t preparing to invade northern Syria and Russia’s allegation that they are is an attempt to hide Moscow’s crimes in the war-ravaged nation, a source within the Continue Reading
A Saudi military spokesman said Thursday the kingdom is ready to send ground troops to Syria to fight Islamic State group provided coalition leaders agree during an upcoming meeting in Continue Reading
The Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) said on Wednesday after the announcement of the pause of the intra-Syrian talks that they will leave Geneva on Thursday and “won’t return Continue Reading
The U.N. special envoy for Syria announced a temporary suspension of peace talks on Wednesday, less than a week after representatives from Damascus and the opposition gathered in Geneva to Continue Reading
Four months after launching airstrikes in Syria, the Kremlin is confident that Moscow’s largest overseas campaign since the end of the Soviet Union is paying off. Under the banner of Continue Reading
The Syrian army and its allies have broken a three-year rebel siege of two Shi’ite towns in northwest Syria, government and rebel groups said on Wednesday, cutting off a main Continue Reading
A military offensive around the city of Aleppo by Syrian government and allied forces has uprooted hundreds of families in nearby towns and killed three humanitarian aid workers, the United Continue Reading
Slabs of concrete wall have sprung up and military patrols have intensified, but local people say this stretch of Turkey’s border facing Syrian territory under Islamic State control is still Continue Reading
This year, 368 people have died making the journey across the Mediterranean, 60 of them children, migration figures show . Since the beginning of the year 19,781 minors have arrived Continue Reading
Russia will not stop its air strikes on Syria until armed groups, such as al Qaeda’s wing there, are defeated, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Continue Reading
