UN sets up inquiry into Syria aid convoy bombing

The US is trying to spare a jihadist group in its attempts to unseat Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, Russia's foreign minister has told the BBC. Sergei Lavrov said the US had broken its promise to separate the powerful Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...

Sydney University staff already skip off to Syria to help Bashar al-Assad with his propaganda ploys and get involved in allegedly anti-Semitic scuffles while part of a Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. Now the crew at the alma mater is at it ...

A top adviser to Syrian President Bashar Al Assad has denied the Government's forces were behind the bombing of two hospitals in the besieged city of Aleppo. Crucial power and oxygen supplies were destroyed at one of the hospitals in the air ...

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has condemned Russia's actions in supporting Bashar al- Assad's government in the Syrian civil war, suggesting that the country could be guilty of war crimes. [Russian President Vladimir Putin's] regime is not only ...

A humanitarian catastrophe is looming in Aleppo after two days of relentless Russian and Syrian government airstrikes left two million people without running water, the United Nations has warned. A humanitarian catastrophe is looming in Aleppo after ...

For the US, how to deal with Assad without striking the Russians is a key issue as is dealing with Syria's neighbors to consolidate spheres of influence. People inspect a damaged site after airstrikes on the rebel held Tariq al-Bab neighbourhood of ...

Strategically, if the jihad terrorists lose eastern Aleppo strategically this war is over, Jim Jatras, a former US diplomat, told RT. The fighting may go on for a while, but that will be the tipping point in terms of who is going to win, he added. ...

"The cause of what is happening is Assad and Russia wanting to simply try to pursue a military victory," Mr. Kerry told reporters during a trip to Cartagena, Colombia, referring to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian regime, supported by ...

The US warned Russia yesterday (Friday) that it would not move ahead with a plan to target jihadist groups in Syria unless Moscow forced the regime to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged city of Aleppo. As part of a ceasefire agreement that ...