Nearly 50 air strikes hit rebel-held areas in and around the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday in some of the heaviest recent raids by Russian and Syrian government aircraft, residents and a monitoring group said.
The al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front announced Monday its withdrawal from frontline positions against the Islamic State (IS) militants in Aleppo to protest against Turkey's intentions to impose a buffer zone in that area, according to a statement by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front militants withdrew from a town in the southern countryside of the capital Damascus after days of clashes with a rival jihadist group, a monitoring group reported Thursday.
The Ukrainian army launched a "major offensive" to retake several towns that were seized earlier by pro-independence rebels in the country's restive east, authorities said Tuesday.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front remained confident that their peace talks with the government would continue despite a fierce firefight in southern Philippines on Sunday that left dozens of policemen dead, a rebel chief said Monday.
Expectations are "low" for this week's Syria peace talks in Geneva as violence continues unabated in the embattled Middle East country, U.S. experts told Xinhua.
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