"On December 25 at 10:00 pm (0700 GMT) Russian warplanes targeted civilian houses" on the outskirts of the town of Armanaz, in Idlib province, said Abdel Halim Shehab of the White Helmets voluntary search-and-rescue group. Members of the White Helmets, which operates in rebel-held zones of northern Syria, pulled the...
Two dead in Syrian army shelling: rescue group
Since 2020, a ceasefire deal brokered by Damascus ally Moscow and rebel-backer Ankara has largely held in the northwest, despite periodic clashes. Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, more than half a million people have been killed.
Syria’s White Helmets say volunteer killed by missile
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a wide network of sources on the ground in Syria, said the volunteer was killed by a "guided missile fired by regime forces".More than four million people live in rebel-controlled areas of north and northwest Syria, an area hard hit...
Syria’s White Helmets rescuers urge international quake help
First responders from the group that was formed a decade ago to save the lives of civilians during Syria's civil war sprung into action early Monday when a 7.8-magnitude quake rocked Syria and Turkey. They have been toiling ever since to pull survivors out from under the debris of buildings.
