This is Aleppo today ... used as a prison by ISIS before rebel forces occupied the region. Source: The Guardian When Bashar al-Assad was elected the president of Syria, he was touted as a symbol ...

The 2016 battle for Aleppo was a turning point in the war between Syrian government forces and rebel fighters after 2011 protests against Assad's rule turned into an all-out war.

BEIRUT — A week after ... into Aleppo, members of the city’s dwindling Christian community are wondering again what future is left for them in Syria. Over nearly 14 years of civil war, Aleppo ...

Syrian rebel fighters are advancing southward after capturing much of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, posing the most serious challenge to President Bashar al-Assad in years amid the country’s ...

But when the congregation gathered for coffee after the service, their current worries surfaced, about how peaceful Syria ... Before the civil war, they made up sizable minorities in Damascus ...

The offensive prompted the Russian Defence Ministry to ask President Vladimir Putin for permission to resume air strikes against militants in rebel-held eastern Aleppo after ... Syria's biggest ...

Aleppo, Syria (EFE).- Around 500 fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) withdrew from the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday as part of a negotiated agreement with the ...