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Syria’s interim government launched a security operation in Aleppo’s Sheikh Maksoud district on Friday, accusing the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of violating a withdrawal agreement. The dispute revived clashes with shelling and gunfire in parts of Aleppo after the SDF refused to withdraw from districts they’ve controlled since 2011.

Syria’s army said Monday it had full control of dozens of towns in Aleppo’s northwestern countryside and would continue its campaign to wipe out militant groups.

United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Monday during a trip to Aleppo, Syria, that the rescue phase in response to the earthquakes that hit Syria and Turkey was “coming to a close,” and that urgency must now switch to providing shelter, food, schooling and psychosocial care. He said the UN would have aid...

The Syria Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, reported on July 27 that at least three people were killed and 20 more were injured when warplanes targeted the Idlib town of Arihah. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that five simultaneous explosions hit five towns in Aleppo, killing two people, including...

Before the war in Syria, the city of Aleppo was thriving. The city, much like Toronto, was known as the cultural and economic hub of the country, but the war has reduced the eastern portion of Aleppo to rubble. Global News anchor Farah Nasser examines the geographic similarities of Toronto and Aleppo.

A disabled Syrian girl from Aleppo, who was born without legs, abandoned her makeshift tin can supports on Thursday as she tried her new prosthetics for the first time after being flown to Istanbul.

Rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad roamed the streets of Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday night, saying they have liberated it from al-Assad’s hold. “By God’s will and the efforts of the fighters, Aleppo is now under full control,” said Mohammed Izzo, an opposition fighter from Aleppo who left in 2016. He added, “I...

A US-backed, Kurdish-led fighting force managed to secure control of 40 percent of the Islamic State-held town of Manbij in northern Syria, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

About a year after fighting died down in Syria’s largest city, Aleppo’s centuries-old market is beginning to show signs of life as a few shops have reopened, though much of the bazaar still remains severely damaged.

Russia says today was Syrian rebels’ final chance to surrender and leave eastern Aleppo alive. That truce expired at sunset, and Moscow is now preparing to launch its most devastating attack yet. As Jeff Semple reports, it could have significant consequences for the outcome of Syria’s five-year civil war.

Flares were seen in the night sky above the village of Mansoura in Aleppo province on Wednesday. Activists also reported seeing flares above some parts of besieged eastern Aleppo. Its not known who fired the flares, or what they were attempting to illuminate.

An Aleppo opposition media group has released dramatic footage it described as showing “incendiary” bombs being dropped over Bashqateen, a town in west Aleppo, on November 14.

Syrians wait by buses on the outskirts of Aleppo as an evacuation deal stalls. Pascale Davies reports

‘The White Helmets,’ a film that follows a group of first responders in Aleppo, Syria, was among the Oscar nominees for Best Short Documentary announced on Tuesday for the 89th academy Awards.

Video uploaded to a social media website purports to show children being rescued from the rubble of damaged buildings said to be in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

The United Nations says it will leave no stone unturned in supplying life-saving aid to people trapped in eastern Aleppo.

The Syrian army is in the “final stages” of recapturing Aleppo after a sudden advance that has pushed rebels to the brink of collapse, a Syrian general said on Monday.

Russia says the Syrian army has temporarily suspended its bombing of eastern Aleppo, to allow thousands of civilians to evacuate. The United States and Russia have announced plans to meet on Saturday, to discuss a possible peace plan for Aleppo. As Jeff Semple reports, the Syrian military is on the verge of victory.

Sun, Dec 18: A deal to free east Aleppo’s remaining civilians in exchange for sick and wounded from two pro-government villages was again stalled on Sunday after six buses sent to evacuate the loyalist areas were stopped and torched. Jennifer Johnson reports.

The mother of Syrian girl Bana Alabed, who has a massive Twitter following, says she has left her soul behind in Aleppo, after the pair were evacuated from the besieged city to al-Rashideen town.