Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday a Western failure to rein in violent Islamists in Syria had indefinitely delayed the resumption of peace talks. Shoigu said that rebels backed by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shock capture of Aleppo by Syrian forces opposed to Bashar al-Assad in recent days has dealt a humiliating blow to the regime ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Syrian opposition fighter fires artillery at Syrian regime forces' positions in Aleppo. The armed Syrian opposition factions, ...

Russia’s defence ministry on Thursday dismissed as “counterproductive” a request from the United Nations to extend future pauses in fighting to allow aid into rebel-held eastern Aleppo as winter comes ...

Aleppo assault is biggest challenge to Assad in years Russia conducts strikes in support of Syrian army US blames Syria's refusal to engage in political process Russian, Turkish ministers discuss ...

Russia Monday announced an eight-hour “humanitarian” ceasefire in Aleppo later this week, as the EU warned that the Syrian regime’s Moscow-backed assault on the city could amount to war crimes. The ...

People inspect a damaged site in Aleppo, after the Syrian army said that dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the city, in Syria today. “I am a son of ...

The fall of Aleppo this weekend surprised even the residents of Aleppo, so you can imagine how flabbergasted foreign analysts were, from thousands of miles away. As recently as a week ago, the Syrian ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faces the biggest challenge to his ...

Russian and Syrian jets struck the rebel-held city of Idlib on Sunday in the second day of intensive bombing in northern Syria aimed at pushing back insurgents who had swept through to the city of ...