Forces loyal to President Bashar Assad claimed to have recaptured al-Fardous, one of the largest neighborhoods in the city, which has been under rebel control since 2012.
“Helicopters, warplanes and rocket bombardment like every day. Nothing has changed,” an official with the Jabha Shamiya rebel group told Reuters.
President-elect Donald Trump also wished his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte “success” in his controversial war on drugs that led to at least 2,300 deaths since June 2016.
The U.S.-led Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve said Thursday 54 civilians died in airstrikes that took place between March 31 and Oct. 22 in Iraq and Syria.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in an interview, urged Moscow's Western and regional allies “to abandon attempts of geopolitical engineering in this region.”
The new restrictions largely target coal, Pyongyang’s single-largest export item, and will cut the reclusive East Asian country’s earnings by at least $800 million.
The Egyptian foreign ministry said in a statement Sunday that Cairo does not intervene in the internal affairs of other countries.
UN human rights officials say they'll speak up if Trump goes off the rails.
Iran’s Tasnim news agency, citing an official, said Iranian fighters were killed as they fought alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad's troops in the multi-faceted war.
The Philippine president told his Russian counterpart that the U.S. could not be trusted when it came to alliances.
The 195-member organization, which is headquartered in Paris, France, is referred to as the “intellectual” agency of the United Nations.
Unicef said an attack on a school in Hass village that killed 22 children could be the deadliest on a school since the country plunged into war.
Thursday's talks in Tokyo mark the fifth such meeting between the three nations, the first of which was held in Washington in April 2015.
A Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said Tuesday that six humanitarian corridors opened last week leading from the Syrian war-torn city were still operational.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte also accused the U.S. of treating Manila “like a dog with a leash.”
Officials called the United Nations' sanction resolutions “illegal criminal documents” orchestrated by the U.S., adding that Pyongyang's mission to develop its nuclear stockpile will continue.
About 44 million Americans, or roughly one-seventh of the population, received nutrition aid from the federal government this year.
Aleppo, once the industrial and financial center of Syria, has now become a battleground in the multifaceted war that has entered its sixth year.
Things aren't looking good for small farmers in disadvantaged regions of the globe.
As Iraq mounted an offensive to free Mosul of ISIS, Turkey said it'd help the operation to prevent sectarian strife while the UNHCR expressed concerns about an exodus of refugees.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is set to meet with French and German ministers in London for another round of talks hoping to end the six-year conflict in Syria.
The North Korean leader hasn't been seen in a week.