Aleppo
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This fragile pact could work. But unless the Assad regime and its backers reconcile with the groups it still calls ‘terrorists’, further conflict is more likely
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Farewell Barack Obama, David Cameron and Europe: how will this year go down in history?
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Evacuees from the Syrian city tell how life continued through years of bombing – until it was impossible to stay
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Forces loyal to the Assad regime captured all of rebel-held Aleppo in less than a month after launching a major ground offensive on 27 November. Amid harrowing reports of atrocities committed by pro-regime forces, rebel territory rapidly shrank to a small pocket. Civilians were finally evacuated after a ceasefire left the regime in control of the rebels’ last major urban stronghold
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Last few thousand fighters and civilians transported from city held by rebels for more than four years in Syrian civil war
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Seven-year-old Bana al-Abed, who drew global attention with her Twitter updates from besieged Aleppo, explains in an interview in Turkey on Thursday how she started tweeting
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The United Nations says it is concerned about evacuees’ safety as the last rebel convoys and civilians leave eastern Aleppo on Thursday
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Thousands were left stranded in freezing temperatures for nearly 24 hours, with reports of four babies dying in the extreme weather
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Despite the killing of Moscow’s ambassador to Ankara, the two nations stand together in their joint peace plan for Syria
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Erdoğan hosts family of girl whose tweets gained global attention, as mother says she hopes Bana can live normal life after fleeing
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Bana al-Abed, the Syrian girl whose Tweets from eastern Aleppo captured the world’s attention, meets with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his palace in Ankara
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Aleppo was Syria’s most populous city when the civil war arrived in July 2012, but the conflict has taken a huge toll, with Russian airstrikes since September 2015 causing intense devastation, as these before and after images show
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Turkish NGO tweets picture of seven-year-old with aid worker and says family have been rescued from besieged city
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Seven-year-old girl Bana al-Abed, whose Twitter account offered a glimpse into Aleppo life, has been evacuated safely
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Civilian evacuations ramped up after four days when it looked like deal between Assad forces and rebels might unravel
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Hundreds leave rebel-held areas after vehicles set on fire on their way to collect villagers from Kefraya and Fua
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Video shared on social media shows buses, said to be enroute to carry out evacuations in Idlib province, on fire.
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People trapped in city face another night under siege despite government assurances that vehicles were on their way
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Hassan Hassan recalls a visit before the outbreak of the Syrian civil war and reflects on the destruction of the city
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From Bowie to Brexit, and street protests to sporting glory, it has been a year of unforgettable events. Those closest to the action recall these memorable moments
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The west seems impotent in the face of Russia’s cynical exploitation of the catastrophe that is Syria
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2016 – the mother of all awful years
Victoria Coren MitchellMaternal fear may be colouring 2016 a darker shade of black but festive frivolity eludes me -
Tehran’s help in securing Syria’s second city is much less to do with re-establishing state sovereignty than about asserting its own agenda
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President becomes emotional speaking of personal burden he feels when children are killed and accuses the Syrian regime of having ‘blood on their hands’
The global student Studying at Aleppo University: 'You get used to seeing blood on the floor'