Air Strikes in Syria
UNSC calls for 30-day Syria ceasefire
With Russia's backing, the UN Security Council yesterday unanimously demanded a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow for humanitarian aid deliveries and medical evacuations.
Syria says Israeli planes attack hit arms depot near Damascus
Israeli war planes attack with missiles unspecified targets near Damascus, the Syrian capital, and injured three Syrian soldiers, Syrian state media reports quoting a military source.
UNSC calls for 30-day Syria ceasefire
With Russia's backing, the UN Security Council yesterday unanimously demanded a 30-day ceasefire in Syria to allow for humanitarian aid deliveries and medical evacuations.
Death toll in Syria enclave tops 500
New air strikes on the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta take the civilian death toll from seven days of devastating bombardment to more than 500 after the United Nations again delayed a vote on a ceasefire.
57 dead in US-led strikes on IS Syria prison
US-led coalition air strikes on a jail run by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria killed at least 57 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
IS abducts around 2,000 civilians in north Syria
Islamic State group fighters seize around 2,000 civilians to use as "human shields" Friday as they fled their stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria, according to US-backed forces and a monitor.
Attacks hit Syria as truce takes hold
The first major truce in Syria's five-year civil war comes into effect, but Syrian TV says shells hit residential areas of the capital, Damascus.
Russia rejects Syria war crimes claim
Russia says it "categorically rejects" accusations of war crimes over the bombing of hospitals in Syria.
IS abducts over 400 in east Syria after deadly assault
Jihadists from the Islamic State group abduct more than 400 Syrian civilians after capturing new ground in a major assault on the city of Deir Ezzor.
Aid for starving Syria village advanced
Aid including one month's worth of food and medicine can reach for 40,000 people trapped in Madaya, a besieged Syrian village as early as Sunday morning, the World Food Programme says.
Syria ‘to let aid into besieged town’
The Syrian government agrees to allow aid into the besieged rebel-held village of Madaya, the UN says, amid reports of residents starving to death.