Jihadist rebels seize Aleppo
Jihadist-led rebels seized Aleppo's airport and dozens of nearby towns on Saturday after overrunning most of Syria's second city, a war monitor said. (Photo/Agencies)
Fighting in Aleppo kills 327, including 44 civilians
The fighting has killed at least 327 people, most of them combatants but also including 44 civilians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Photo/Agencies)
Jihadist opposition flag
A boy holds the Syrian opposition flag in Aleppo, Syria November 30, 2024. (Photo/Agencies)
HTS, allies capture key sites
"Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and allied factions took control of most of the city and government centres and prisons without meeting great resistance," the Britain-based war monitor said. (Photo/Agencies)
HTS controls Idlib
HTS is a jihadist alliance led by Al-Qaeda's former Syria branch which, with its allies, has long controlled a rebel enclave in the Idlib region of the northwest. (Photo/Agencies)
First rebel attack on Aleppo since 2016
It was the first opposition attack on Aleppo since 2016, when a brutal air campaign by Russian warplanes helped Syrian President Bashar Assad retake the northwestern city. Intervention by Russia, Iran and Iranian-allied Hezbollah and other groups has allowed Assad to remain in power, within the 70 per cent of Syria under his control. (Photo/Agencies)
Damaged Bashar
A view shows a damaged poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, after the Syrian army said that dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the city. (Photo/Agencies)
Surge in fighting raises risk of new violent front in Middle East
The surge in fighting has raised the prospect of another violent front reopening in the Middle East, at a time when US-backed Israel is fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, both Iranian-allied groups. (Photo/Agencies)
Aleppo: A historic center of trade and culture
At the crossroads of trade routes and empires for thousands of years, Aleppo is one of the centers of commerce and culture in the Middle East. (Photo/Agencies)
Symbol of jihadist resistance
Aleppo was home to 2.3 million people before the war. Rebels seized the east side of the city in 2012, and it became the proudest symbol of the advance of armed opposition factions. (Photo/Agencies)