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A picture taken on April 16, 2017, shows the damage inside a bus a day after a suicide car bombing attack in Rashidin, west of Aleppo, targeted busses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

April 17th, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

More than 60 children among dead in Syria bus bombing

The evacuees were being moved in a so-called population swap between government and rebel-held towns.

In Geneva, UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland called on parties to allow aid convoys to reach besieged and hard-to-reach areas of Syria to demonstrate "goodwill" before envoys gather for talks on 23 February. (AFP/File)

February 17th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Syrian facts meet in Astana amid build up to Syrian peace negotiations

Pro-government forces shelled the city’s al-Waer neighbourhood with tank and artillery fire in conjunction with the airstrikes. (AFP/File)

February 16th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Syrian regime bombs opposition-held district ahead of Geneva talks

Syrians walk past destroyed buildings in Al-Bab in the northern province of Aleppo on 1 September 2012. (AFP/Achilleas Zavallis)

February 7th, 2017 - 09:00 GMT

Daesh under siege in Al-Bab as members of Astana talks fail to reach ceasefire agreement

Government forces have now encircled the militants in the towns of al-Bab, Bizaah, Qabasin and Tedif. (AFP/File)

February 7th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Syrian army lays siege to Daesh-held town of al-Bab

Fatah al-Sham and the Daesh extremist militia are excluded from an ongoing shaky ceasefire in Syria. (AFP/File)

January 29th, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

Fatah al-Sham unifies with four other jihadist groups in Syria

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January 29th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Rebels hand over Damascus major water supply to Syrian regime forces

Satellite image of the Rukban Syrian refugee encampment at the Jordanian berm on Jordan-Syria border. (File photo)

January 21st, 2017 - 11:56 GMT

Explosion near Rukban refugee camp near Syrian-Jordanian border kills at least four

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AFP/File)

October 29th, 2016 - 08:00 GMT

Putin puts the brakes on further airstrikes on Aleppo to test the US

Syrian men sell fuel produced from plastic in the rebel-held side of the northern embattled city of Aleppo on October 27, 2016. (AFP/Karam al-Masri)

October 28th, 2016 - 01:42 GMT

Rebel-held Aleppo launches offensive against Syrian regime

A file picture shows Russian S-300 missiles being prepared to be launched. (AFP/File)

October 5th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Russia brings out the big guns, deploying S-300 missile system to Syria

A Yemeni man sits on the rubble as people search for suvivors in houses destroyed by airstrikes. (AFP/File)

September 25th, 2016 - 04:00 GMT

Number of civilian casualties in Yemen skyrockets in the past month

This image taken on February 4, 2016 shows human rights activists holding placards at a protest rally outside an immigration office in Sydney, Australia. (AFP/File)

September 19th, 2016 - 10:00 GMT

Horrific reports about Australian detention centers for refugees leaked