US-led coalition planes flew over flashpoint towns in northern Syria where army troops and Kurdish factions clashed on Saturday, a Syrian security source and a Turkish defense source told Reuters. US military forces killed an al-Qaeda affiliate leader linked to an Islamic State attack on Americans in Syria last month,

Syria’s military has announced it will open a “humanitarian corridor” for civilians to evacuate from an area in Aleppo province

It touches the very structure of Syria’s political economy, the social contract between state and citizen and the fragile architecture of agreements meant to reconcile formerly hostile actors. And the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),

Move comes as part of efforts to restore normal air traffic to Aleppo after escalation with YPG/SDF terror organization - Anadolu Ajansı

First responders started entering a contested neighborhood in Syria's Aleppo after deadly clashes between government and Kurdish-led forces.

Deir al-Zour has been described as the most heavily damaged city in Syria by U.N.-Habitat. Traffic weaves past craters and around mounds of rubble. Children play in the ruins beneath great slabs of concrete hanging perilously from buildings. Dust clogs the air.