Humanitarian staff on the ground in Syria, most of them Syrian nationals, could start monitoring the Aleppo evacuations... READ MORE›
According to the ICRC and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, around 500 people left in a dawn convoy out of Fuaa and Kafraya... READ MORE›
If the evacuation from Aleppo is completed by early Tuesday, it will close another chapter in Syria's civil war, now in its sixth year... READ MORE›
Some 350 people were able to leave a rebel-held pocket of east Aleppo late Sunday, a medical official said, though evacuations have officially been postponed... READ MORE›
The Syrian government has said that the village evacuations and the one in eastern Aleppo must be done simultaneously, but the rebels say there's no connection... READ MORE›
Several buses en route to evacuate ill and injured people from the besieged Syrian villages of al-Foua and Kefraya have been attacked and burned... READ MORE›
According to al-Ikhbariya TV news, about 1,200 civilians would initially be taken out of east Aleppo and a similar number from the two villages... READ MORE›
According to al-Ikhbariya TV news, about 1,200 civilians would initially be evacuated from east Aleppo and a similar number from the two villages in Idlib province... READ MORE›
Civilians who have made it out of Aleppo are still coming to grips with life after four years of urban warfare... READ MORE›
Dec. 13, 2016 Syrian pro-regime fighters gesture as they drive past residents fleeing violence in Aleppo... READ MORE›
"My soul is still in the besieged city along with my friends and my house and my land," he said... READ MORE›
Syrian state TV put it at more than 9,000 while Russia, a key Assad ally, said over 9,500 people, including more than 4,500 rebels, were taken out... READ MORE›
The Syrian government said the village evacuations and the one in eastern Aleppo must be done simultaneously, but the rebels say there is no connection... READ MORE›
With freezing winter conditions setting in, about 275,000 people are trapped in east Aleppo, where the last UN food rations were distributed on 13 November... READ MORE›
A Syrian boy receives treatment at a make-shift hospital following air strikes on rebel-held eastern areas of Aleppo on September 24, 2016... READ MORE›
Russian-backed Syrian offensive pounds rebel-held Aleppo with hospitals running out of medicine and health workers... READ MORE›
Other than Russia and the Syrian government, only the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State is flying planes in Syria... READ MORE›
Madaya and Zabadani lie at the southeastern end of the Qalamoun mountains along Syria's border with Lebanon... READ MORE›
Pope Francis has taken 12 Syrian migrants back with him to the Vatican after visiting a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos... READ MORE›
Critics say the United Nations, eager to keep the Syrian government on board for peace talks with opposition groups, is either selling out or getting played... READ MORE›
The council adopted two resolutions in 2014 that authorized United Nations aid agencies to send convoys across Syria's borders without the consent of the government... READ MORE›
Abu Yaman lives in Masakin Barzeh, in government-held Damascus, Syria's capital... READ MORE›
Monday's aid delivery was the first allowed into Madaya since mid-October, when the UN's World Food Programme took a month's supply of food rations for 20,000 people... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, Syrian opposition groups have been pushing towards the Latakia coast... READ MORE›
July 2015 Madaya, near Damascus, is besieged by government forces and their allies in Lebanon's Shia Islamist Hezbollah movement... READ MORE›
Syrian civil war Damascus clings to normal life amid the chaos of conflict... READ MORE›
The medical aid agency Doctors Without Borders said in a statement that 23 patients had died of starvation at one health center in Madaya since Dec. 1... READ MORE›
In Damascus, Pawel Krzysiek, ICRC spokesperson, said that despite the difficult situation in Aleppo that affects humanitarian operations in the city, work elsewhere was continuing... READ MORE›
Opposition activists in Syria have told the BBC that people are dying of starvation in the government-besieged town of Madaya, near Damascus... READ MORE›
A human rights group says Islamic State militants in Syria have abducted 400 civilians during a bloody assault on the eastern city of Deir al-Zour... READ MORE›
At least 230,000 people have been killed since the Syrian conflict broke out in March 2011, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights... READ MORE›
Around two dozen people have already starved to death in the Syrian town, which has been under siege for six months... READ MORE›
More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in almost five years of conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a brutal civil war... READ MORE›
Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said plans were afoot to evacuate about 500 people, including the sick and wounded along with their family members from the four towns... READ MORE›
The UN carries out its first air drop of aid in Syria, helping people in a government-held part of Deir al-Zour besieged by Islamic State militants... READ MORE›
Moscow also said it opposed any pre-negotiated exit of the Syrian president as part of a peace deal... READ MORE›
The Syrian government prohibited United Nations staff members from accompanying the convoy earlier in the week, Mr. Egeland said... READ MORE›
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent said 39 trucks took food and non-food items including medicines into the besieged town... READ MORE›
Madaya has been besieged since early July by government forces and their allies in Lebanon's Shia Islamist Hezbollah movement... READ MORE›
This summer, Sereen fled her home in the neighboring town of Zabadani with her mother during an attack by Syrian troops and Hezbollah fighters... READ MORE›
The Syrian government intensified its military advance even as it took steps to talk in Geneva... READ MORE›
In a speech to parliament, the Syrian president says his forces will recapture territory lost to rebels... READ MORE›
The Syrian army was making its advances from the Athriya area of eastern Hama province, close to the provincial border with Raqqa... READ MORE›
A Syrian military source told AFP regime forces had no intention of letting up on rebel-held areas... READ MORE›
Elsewhere in Aleppo province, Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels were shelling the Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces coalition in several villages... READ MORE›
Damascus has given a green light for convoys to 25 of 29 besieged and hard-to-reach areas across Syria, they said... READ MORE›
The attack prompted the United Nations to suspend all aid shipments into Syria... READ MORE›
Syrian government forces also launched a major advance in Hama province in the West of the country... READ MORE›
The United States called the episode a mistake, but the Syrian government called it proof that Washington was siding with terrorists... READ MORE›
The United States and Russia already have a deconfliction agreement to avoid collisions in the increasingly crowded Syrian skies... READ MORE›
The Syrian government and Russia should immediately stop attacking civilian areas with incendiary weapons, said Steve Goose, the director of arms research at Human Rights Watch... READ MORE›
Hopes to convene a new round of intra-Syrian peace talks in Geneva in August, its Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said this week... READ MORE›
Islamic State, also known as Daesh, said two of its suicide bombers had blown themselves up and operatives had detonated an explosives-laden car, according to the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency... READ MORE›
Syrian state television said the blasts in the Sayyida Zeinab area just south of Damascus killed eight people and wounded 13 others... READ MORE›
Moreover, the officials said, it would be necessary for security reasons for any airdrops to have the consent of the Syrian government... READ MORE›
The United States and Russia on Monday announced plans for a landmark cessation of hostilities to take effect in war-torn Syria on Feb. 27, excluding the... READ MORE›
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