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FILE: A Syrian boy receives treatment at a hospital in the regime-controlled Aleppo on 24 November 2018. Official Syrian media accused the armed opposition of launching an attack with 'toxic gas' on the northern city, but a leading rebel alliance has denied any involvement. Picture: AFP

Aleppo

Scores poisoned in Aleppo gas attack, Syria and Russia blame rebels

By AFP

A health official in Aleppo said victims suffered breathing difficulties, eye inflammation and other symptoms suggesting the use of chlorine gas.

  • Turkish forces are seen in a convoy on a main highway between Damascus and Aleppo, near the town of Saraqib in Syria's northern Idlib province, on 29 August 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Scores poisoned in Aleppo gas attack, Syria and Russia blame rebels

    A health official in Aleppo said victims suffered breathing difficulties, eye inflammation and other symptoms suggesting the use of chlorine gas.

    1311 days ago
  • FILE: Smoke billows following a suicide car bombing in Rashidin, west of Aleppo, that targeted buses carrying Syrians evacuated from two besieged government-held towns. Picture: AFP.

    Evacuation of two pro-Assad Syrian villages under way

    The evacuation began with ambulances ferrying out the sick, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor reported.

    1440 days ago
  • A member of Syria's pro-government forces walks past damaged structures in the town of Mudyara, formerly held by opposition groups, in the centre of the eastern Ghouta region as regime troops carry on with their assault on the rebel-held enclave, just outside the capital Damascus. Picture: AFP

    Syrian army says 'enemy' rocket attacks on military bases

    Earlier, state television said successive blasts were heard in rural Hama province and that authorities were investigating the cause.

    1520 days ago
  • FILE: A file picture shows Syrian President Bashar Assad giving an interview to the AFP news agency, in Damascus, Syria, 11 February 2016. Picture: EPA

    In Syria, Russia securing position as Assad presses war

    A year after the opposition’s defeat in Aleppo, government forces backed by Russia and Iran have recovered large swathes of territory as Islamic State’s 'caliphate' collapses.

    1654 days ago
  • Meet the key players in Syria's civil war.  Picture: CNN

    Syrian Observatory: Islamic State captures town from government

    There was no comment from the Syrian army on the report that Qaryatayn, 120 km northeast of Damascus, had fallen.

    1731 days ago
  • Pope Francis performs the holy trinity in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC on 23 September 2015. Picture: AFP.

    Pope condemns Aleppo bus convoy attack as 'ignoble'

    Pope Francis on Sunday condemned a bomb blast on a crowded Syrian bus convoy that killed at least 112 people outside Aleppo.

    1899 days ago
  • Syrians who arrived a day earlier from government-held villages of Fuaa and Kafraya wait in rebel-held Rashidin, west of Aleppo city, following delays in evacuating them as the hard-won deal ran into trouble on 15 April 2017. Picture: AFP

    Reports: Blast hits Syrian bus convoy near Aleppo

    A military media unit run by Damascus ally Hezbollah said a suicide attacker had detonated a car bomb near the convoy.

    1900 days ago
  • FILE: A general view shows Syrian pro-government forces walking in the ancient Umayyad mosque in the old city of Aleppo on 13 December 2016, after they captured the area. Picture: AFP

    Air strike on mosque near Aleppo in Syria kills 42 – monitor

    The Syrian and Russian military have carried out many air strikes in Idlib and Aleppo provinces during the war.

    1929 days ago
  • Syrians are evacuated from a rebel-held area of Aleppo towards rebel-held territory in the west of Aleppo's province on 16 December 2016. Picture: AFP

    Syrian army takes district near Aleppo - monitor, media unit

    The advance was the army's first from its lines in Aleppo city since rebels departed their enclave there in December.

    1951 days ago
  • FILE: A general view shows Syrian pro-government forces walking in the ancient Umayyad mosque in the old city of Aleppo on 13 December 2016, after they captured the area. Picture: AFP.

    Operation SA raises over R13.9m to assist with humanitarian efforts in Syria

    The NGO launched #SaveSyria following scenes of devastation in Aleppo and is using the money to assist refugees of the war.

    1955 days ago
  • FILE: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Picture: AFP

    Assad says ready to discuss everything, vows to take back all Syria

    He made the remarks in comments to French media that were published by the Syrian state news agency SANA.

    1996 days ago
  • Syrians walk past a destroyed building in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, on December 30, 2016, on the first day of a nationwide truce.Picture: AFP

    Syrian army, allies press assault to secure capital's water supply

    The Syrian army has so far been unsuccessful in making any significant advance.

    1999 days ago
  • FILE: A general view shows Syrian pro-government forces walking in the ancient Umayyad mosque in the old city of Aleppo on 13 December 2016, after they captured the area. Picture: AFP.

    UN: Thousands return to ruins of freezing Aleppo

    Families are starting to return to east Aleppo despite freezing weather & destruction ‘beyond imagination’, a top UN official says.

    2001 days ago
  • Buses drive through the Syrian government-controlled crossing of Ramoussa, on the southern outskirts of Aleppo, on 18 December, 2016, during an evacuation operation of rebel fighters and civilians from rebel-held areas. Picture: AFP.

    UN Security Council welcomes Syria truce, rebels warn they could abandon it

    A resolution welcoming the ceasefire was adopted unanimously by the 15-member Council, meeting in New York.

    2004 days ago
  • FILE: Buses are seen during an evacuation operation of Syrian rebel fighters and civilians from the remaining rebel-held pockets of eastern Aleppo towards rebel-held territory in the west of Aleppo's province on 21 December 2016. Picture: AFP.

    Syria rebels: ceasefire 'void' if govt violations persist

    Clashes and air strikes have persisted in some areas since the ceasefire began on Friday.

    2005 days ago
  • Syrians walk over rubble following air strikes on the rebel-held Fardous neighbourhood of the northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo on 12 October 2016. Picture: AFP.

    [OPINION] The real tragedy this week is Syria, not George Michael

    This week's shock loss of celebrities George Michael and Carrie Fisher shouldn't turn our attention away from the real tragedies in our world.

    2006 days ago
  • FILE: A general view shows Syrian pro-government forces walking in the ancient Umayyad mosque in the old city of Aleppo on 13 December 2016, after they captured the area. Picture: AFP

    Syria ceasefire begins, but is shaky with early clashes

    Russian President Vladimir Putin, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, announced the ceasefire on Thursday.

    2006 days ago
  • FILE: A bombed house in Harem, Syria. Picture: Rahima Essop/EWN.

    Turkey, Russia have ceasefire plan for Syria - Ankara

    Russia, Iran and Turkey said last week they were ready to help broker a peace deal after adopting a declaration in Moscow.

    2007 days ago
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