The syrian observatory
Week of renewed strikes kills at least 157 in Aleppo
The assault began last Tuesday after a weeks-long pause in air strikes and shelling inside east Aleppo.
The week’s three big offensives are some of the most aggressive campaigns against Islamic State.
A senior UN diplomat said that Europeans tend to be pretty sceptical about the US-Russia bilateralism.
The Hazzm movement was once central to a covert CIA operation to arm Syrian rebels.
Bombings in al-Shadadi killed 20 Islamic State fighters and one civilian.
An election affirmed his grip on power more than three years into Syria’s civil war.
State television showed thousands of people queuing to vote, as well as crowds waving Syrian flags.
The resolution called for the immediate lifting of sieges in specific towns and cities.
A statement by the FSA said it replaced General Selim Idriss with Colonel Abdelilah al-Bashir.
Powerful Islamist groups have denounced the opposition team, made up mainly of political exiles, as traitors.
Syria’s government and opposition will discuss prisoner swaps, local ceasefires and humanitarian aid.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened proceedings at Montreux on Lake Geneva.
The UN agency aims to distributed food supplies to 4.25 million people in January.
US welcomed the removal of chemical materials and said Assad's government is cooperative.
Reports suggests that Kurdish militants have secured a route to the oil market region.
Ground fighting and air strikes have continued in nearly every province of Syria.
UN inspectors in Syria went to investigate sites of an alleged chemical weapons strike.
US President Barack Obama's administration said it was appalled by the death reports.
Rebels fired into the air to disperse a protest by civilians in a rebel-held district of Aleppo.