Syrian government forces have taken control over dozens of towns and villages in Idlib and Aleppo. The Syrian army is advancing into the strategic town of Saraqib as it aims to regain territory held by rebels who want to remove President Bashar al-Assad's government.

WION Dispatch: Syrian army aims to retake strategic road

A Syrian filmmaker whose documentary on the siege of Aleppo brought a Cannes audience to tears has said she wants to show the world the reality of her country. Waad al-Kateab's powerful and intimate film 'For Sama' is a love letter to her infant daughter, documenting the desperate conditions she and her husband were living through, in case they didn't survive.

Aleppo filmmaker vows to continue showing reality of Syria

Russia-backed Syrian forces found Abu Abdo and family this week in Khan Sheikhoun, a town which almost all other residents had fled during shelling in an offensive to take the area from rebel fighters.

Family stayed in Syrian town during offensive as rebels ousted

Still reeling from his sudden deportation from Turkey with just the clothes on his back, Mohammad Hassan stood in the arrivals hall at a border crossing in northern Syria unsure what to do next.

Deported from Turkey, Syrians return to unfamiliar country

Regime and Russian airstrikes Saturday killed 15 civilians, more than half of them children, in northwestern Syria where ramped up attacks by the two allies have claimed hundreds of lives since April.

Regime and Russian airstrikes killed 15 civilians in northwest Syria: Monitor

More than 400,000 people have been displaced in northwestern Syria over the past three months, the UN said Friday, as the government presses an intensified bombardment of the rebel-held region.

More than 400,000 displaced in northwest Syria in 3 months: UN

Clashes between pro-government forces and jihadist-led groups that control Syria's northwest killed at least 45 combatants on Tuesday, a war monitor said. The fighting flared on the edge of Hama province when jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a dawn attack on regime positions, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Syria clashes kill 45 fighters, says war monitor

At least nine civilians, including two children, were killed Saturday in air strikes by Syria's government and its ally Russia in the northwest of the country, a war monitor said.

Nine killed by regime, Russian strikes in Syria's Idlib: War monitor

At least six civilians were killed on Sunday when the rockets were fired by jihadists in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the state news agency reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor said 20 rockets were fired into neighbourhoods of Aleppo.

Syria: At least six killed, seven wounded in rocket fire launched by jihadists

By Harout Akdedian The so-called Islamic State (IS) recently lost its last remnant of territory in Syria, but observers were quick to remind the world that the war against the organisation is far from over.

Islamic State is off the map for now, but war against the organisation is far from over

The Syrian military said Israel on Wednesday launched raids on an industrial zone in the northern city of Aleppo, causing damage only to materials, while opposition sources said the strikes hit Iranian ammunitions stores and a military airport used by Tehran's forces.

Syrian army says Israeli strikes hit northern Aleppo city, damages materials only

Homesick artist fills Dubai exhibition with scents from Syria

Four children were among at least 11 people killed when a war-damaged block of flats collapsed in Syria's second city Aleppo on Saturday, state media said. One child was pulled out alive from the rubble of the five-storey block after rescue teams toiled, many of them with their bare hands, to remove the shattered breeze blocks that had buried him, AFP photographers reported.

11 dead as war-damaged flats collapse in Syria's Aleppo

What can be done when a state acts against its citizens? Or, put slightly differently, do people of and within a given state have recourse to redressal when their state turns against them?

The international community has failed Syria

The recovery of the enclave south of Damascus will mark another milestone in President Bashar al-Assad's war effort, crushing the last besieged rebel enclave in western Syria

Syrian monitor says insurgents quit enclave, state media denies it

Syrian rescue workers of the Civil Defence said they had taken away at least 100 bodies from the site of Saturday's blast

Death toll from bomb attack on Aleppo bus convoy at least 126: Monitor

Saturday's blast hit a convoy carrying residents from the northern towns of Fuaa and Kafraya

Nearly 70 children killed in Syria bomb attack on convoy: Monitor

UN investigators said both Syria and Russia conducted daily air strikes on eastern Aleppo in 2016, killing hundreds and destroying hospitals

Syrian air force 'deliberately' bombed humanitarian convoy in Aleppo: UN

The army said the advances form 'a launching pad for developing military operations against Daesh,' using an Arabic acronym for IS

Aleppo: Syrian forces advance in fight against Islamic State, take control of key highway

There has been no professional football in Aleppo since it was divided between the army and rebel forces in 2011

Aleppo: Football fans cheer first home game in five years

They will press for full implementation of a ceasefire they say has been widely violated by the government and its Iranian-backed allies

Syrian rebels agree to attend peace talks in Kazakhstan

The talks on Syria's political future is expected to take place in Kazakhstan's capital Astana on January 23

Russia agrees US should attend Syria talks: Turkey

He claimed to be ready to even discuss his presidential office if Syrians were willing to vote

Syria's President Assad says is ready to negotiate 'everything' in future peace talks with rebels

We do not consider retaking Aleppo as a victory because victory will be when we have eliminated all the terrorists, Assad said

Syrian forces on road to victory after recapturing Aleppo, says Assad

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