This is Aleppo today. For the last 5 years, the Syrian city has been crumbling under conflict and intense shelling from Russian-backed government forces and rebels fighting against President Assad ...

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency said the insurgents have seized control of large parts of Aleppo and Idlib countryside. The 2016 battle for Aleppo was a turning point in the war between ...

Rebel forces in Syria have seized control of most of the city Aleppo after launching a surprise offensive against government forces, a war monitor reported on Saturday as Russia says it deployed ...

The Battle of Aleppo, raging since 2012, has finally taken a U-turn, as Syrian government forces backed by pro-Iranian Shiite militias captured several key areas in the militant-controlled ...

According to the UN, about 270,000 people live there. Military experts in Damascus earlier pointed out that the battle of Aleppo had reached a turning point. The Syrian army has gained control ...

The rule of these “rebels” has been a tragedy for the people of East Aleppo for years. That is not to say the battle of Aleppo is not also a tragedy. As in so many parts of Syria and Iraq, both ...

ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers with Syria’s new government were speeding through the streets of Aleppo in pursuit of a man who had been spotted ...

VITAL supply convoys began to reach the Syrian city of Aleppo this weekend as fierce fighting continued in the province. Four civilians — including a child — were killed in the city yesterday when a ...

According to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), five SNA fighters were killed and eight others wounded in drone ...

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much of the trade between Europe and the Middle East passed through Istanbul or Aleppo, decreasing the importance of... The Battle of Chaldiran soon led to the region’s other pivotal battle of ...

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