Russia has carried out five consecutive air strikes targeting a refugee camp in a neighbourhood in Idlib, according to UK-based human rights group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR). The strikes killed at least one civilian and have injured others, the monitor says.

Sham, a powerful Syrian rebel faction, has launched offensive in Aleppo by taking military bases and villages from Assad's forces. This marks a significant escalation of the civil war in Syria, with HTS posing a major threat to Assad's regime.

BEIRUT—Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is facing the most serious challenge to his grip on power in nearly a decade after rebels captured most of the city of Aleppo in a swift offensive that crumpled his Russian- and Iranian-backed forces and has the potential to alter the balance of power in the Middle East.