Syria Conflict
While Turkey actively sponsors rebel forces in Idlib, its influence over the former Al Qaeda affiliate is less clear.
Updated 31 Aug, 2018 11:31am
Guterres's warning comes amid fears the Syrian government is mobilising for a military offensive to retake Idlib.
Published 29 Aug, 2018 11:56pm
Rescue operation is still underway in Sarmada.
Updated 13 Aug, 2018 03:54pm
“The toll may rise... because people are trapped under the rubble,” warns monitor.
Updated 11 Aug, 2018 11:15am
Israel is on high alert as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad regains ground from rebels.
Updated 24 Jul, 2018 10:45am
Assad is determined to oust rebels from a key southern region bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Updated 13 Jul, 2018 11:21am
For nearly two weeks, regime forces and their Russian allies have battered rebel-held parts of southern Syria.
Updated 03 Jul, 2018 10:07am
Already Russian missiles and Syrian bombs are embracing the countryside south and east of Deraa.
Updated 28 Jun, 2018 09:49am
Syrian forces have been battering rebel-held towns in Daraa for nearly a week, leaving at least 29 civilians dead.
Updated 26 Jun, 2018 10:20am
Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels seized the northwest Afrin region from Kurdish fighters in March.
Updated 27 May, 2018 10:12am
"IS is entrenched in tunnels and underground shelters and has been conducting counter-attacks since May 5," says SOHR.
Published 12 May, 2018 07:14pm
The bombed centre's rubble yields little proof of being the chemical warfare research centre that it's claimed to be.
Updated 03 May, 2018 11:37am
The attack appears to have been carried out by Israel, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
Published 30 Apr, 2018 01:50pm
“We are not withdrawing,” says the US Defence Secretary terming the operations "an ongoing fight".
Published 26 Apr, 2018 11:44pm
Envoy urges world to prevent a fresh humanitarian disaster as officials warn aid funding running “desperately short”.
Published 25 Apr, 2018 09:48am
During a reconnaissance mission “the team came under small arms fire and an explosive was detonated,” says OPCW chief.
Published 18 Apr, 2018 11:38pm
Syrian government has provided 15 buses for refugees returning from Shebaa.
Published 18 Apr, 2018 09:22pm
Putin and Rouhani agree that the strikes have damaged the chances of achieving a political resolution in the conflict.
Updated 17 Apr, 2018 09:02am
A recap of events that began with a suspected gas attack and ended in retaliatory military strikes by the West in Syria.
Published 14 Apr, 2018 02:00pm
How could Theresa May follow an American president who the world knows is crackers, insane, chronically unstable?
Published 14 Apr, 2018 12:33pm
Syria denounces Western attack as "barbaric", Russia calls for emergency UN session.
Updated 14 Apr, 2018 05:39pm
British PM Theresa May insists the attacks are not meant to "intervene in a civil war" or "regime change".
Updated 14 Apr, 2018 07:42pm
US, France and Britain are finalising plans for an expected strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Updated 13 Apr, 2018 09:24am
“I risked my life to come..I won't leave until I find my home...I want one look even if it's the last," says one woman.
Published 12 Apr, 2018 09:16pm
Opponents of unilateral US action call emergency closed-door UN meeting; UK also schedules emergency cabinet meeting.
Published 12 Apr, 2018 01:11pm
With renewed US military action seemingly imminent, both Washington and Moscow raised the rhetorical stakes.
Updated 12 Apr, 2018 12:58pm
Seven soldiers' bodies flown to Tehran for burial after Monday's strike which Syria, Russia and Iran blame Israel for.
Published 10 Apr, 2018 07:31pm
Syrian war-monitoring group says 14 people, including Iranians, killed in a missile attack early in the morning.
Published 09 Apr, 2018 03:13pm
France initiates the call, followed by the US, Britain, Kuwait, Sweden, Poland, Peru, the Netherlands and Ivory Coast.
Updated 09 Apr, 2018 08:56am
"President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad," tweets US president.
Published 08 Apr, 2018 11:18pm
