Syrian forces have rounded up hundreds of young men as government troops advance into rebel-held zones in embattled Aleppo.

New Zealand is leading a bid to get UN Security Council members to agree to resumption of a ceasefire in Syria.

Syrian regime forces seized full control of northeast Aleppo, overrunning a third of what remained of the rebel enclave and sending thousands of civilians into flight.

COMMENT: Do the outside powers that have intervened in the war accept Bashar al-Assad's victory, or do they keep the war going?

The President invited a 6-year-old to White House to congratulate him on his compassion.

The listeners who call in to Radio Alghad are typical of talk radio audiences around the world, except the callers to Radio Tomorrow are in the Isis-controlled city of Mosul.

Syrian government airstrikes pounded eastern Aleppo yesterday.

Just a day after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin vowed to fight terrorism together, Russia has unleashed a major offensive against the country.

Airstrikes by the United States-led coalition appear to have killed hundreds of civilians in Syria, a leading rights group said yesterday.

Russia is deploying "two of the most powerful warships in the world" - and sending a message to the Americans. What is Putin up to?

Amira Karroum was beautiful and accomplished, but also lonely: an easy mark for the Islamic State recruiter who lured her to a barbaric death.

New Zealand believes it has found a good middle ground for a Security Council resolution demanding an end to attacks that may kill civilians in Syria - days after Russia vetoed a similar text.

In a series of recent tweets All Blacks star Sonny Bill Williams has highlighted the plight of children in some of the world's most troubled spots.

A Syrian man suspected of planning a bomb attack in Germany on behalf of Isis (Islamic State) was arrested after being captured by fellow Syrians.

The call came last January when Tammam Tamim was at home with his family.

New Zealand has accused Syria of telling "blatant lies" about the delivery of humanitarian aid to its own people.

US Secretary of State John Kerry called for the Syrian and Russian governments to face a war-crimes investigation over attacks on civilians in Syria.

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"Good afternoon from Aleppo," tweets seven-year-old Bana al-Abed. "I am reading to forget the war."

A Syrian rescue worker has been filmed breaking down in tears as he heroically pulled a 30-day-old baby girl from the rubble of a

There is no electricity in the rebel-held portion of eastern Aleppo, and the warplanes flying overhead target any light piercing the blackness below.

The cat man of Aleppo aka Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel has rescued more than 100 stray and abandoned cats in warstricken Syria. Many of

The two largest hospitals in the Syrian city of Aleppo have been bombed, knocking them out of service and worsening an already dire medical crisis.

As Syrian regime troops begin a massive Aleppo ground offensive, doctors are having to operate on kids without anaesthetic after being overwhelmed by patients.

Dozens of civilians were killed in Aleppo as Russian and Syrian regime bombers pounded city with a wave of air strikes on unprecedented scale.

A humanitarian catastrophe is looming in Aleppo after two days of Russian and Syrian government airstrikes left two million people without running water.

On a clear afternoon last Monday a line of humanitarian aid trucks eased to a stop in front of a cluster of warehouses packed with aid supplies 24km outside the Syrian city of Aleppo.

A 6-year-old boy's letter to Barack Obama asking him to send a Syrian refugee child to come and live with his family has gone viral.

Syria's UN ambassador, Bashar Ja'afari, slammed the United States at the special Security Council meeting.