Syrian regime forces took control of a town south of Idlib city on Tuesday in a significant advance for regime leader Bashar al Assad as he seeks to recapture territory in the country's northwest, a war monitor and state media said. Assad's campaign to regain Idlib province, the last opposition bastion in a nearly nine-year-long civil war, has sparked a new exodus of thousands of civilians towards the border of ...
![Site of a suicide bombing in the Jisr Abyad neighborhood in Damascus. [hdnux]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria/maaloula_nuns.jpg?itok=Anmixg1N "Site of a suicide bombing in the Jisr Abyad neighborhood in Damascus. [hdnux]")
![An air strike by pro-government forces on the Syrian city of Aleppo on November 28, 2013. [Mohammad Al-Khattib/AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Egypt/452357941.jpg?itok=UO9Ta0XK "An air strike by pro-government forces on the Syrian city of Aleppo on November 28, 2013. [Mohammad Al-Khattib/AFP]")
