Syria civil war
Syria death toll tops 380,000 in almost nine-year war: monitor
The conflict has displaced or sent into exile around 13 million Syrians, causing billions of dollars-worth of destruction.
Doctor Feroz Ganchi was working in a refugee camp in the besieged country.
US President Donald Trump in December ordered a withdrawal of the 2,000 American troops in Syria, saying they had defeated Islamic State militants there.
The US president had threatened Turkey with economic devastation if Turkish forces attacked a US-backed Kurdish militia in northeast Syria.
Syrian state media broadcast footage of what it said were the air defenses firing, with bright lights seen shooting across the night sky.
A deal was struck between rebel-backer Turkey and Damascus ally Russia in September to stave off a threatened government offensive on Idlib.
In seven years, the casualties of Syria’s civil war have grown to nearly 370,000.
The assault began last Tuesday after a weeks-long pause in air strikes and shelling inside east Aleppo.
Last Friday rebels staged a major assault southwest of Aleppo to break this siege.
A pessimistic atmosphere pervaded the meeting in Vienna, between countries that support Bashar al-Assad.
A senior UN diplomat said that Europeans tend to be pretty sceptical about the US-Russia bilateralism.
The United Nations said on Tuesday a new attempt at peace talks would begin on March 9 in Geneva.
There is little optimism that the deal reached in Munich will do much to end a war that has lasted five years.
The city has become the focal point of the country's long civil war.
Hundreds of Iranian troops joined a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar al-Assad's govt.
Russia launched its biggest Middle East intervention in decades.
The suspect, Hayat Boumeddiene, arrived at an Istanbul airport on 2 January via Madrid and stayed in a hotel.
A Pentagon spokesman, said he wasn’t sure how many targets had been damaged versus destroyed.
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