Bashar al-Assad

Over the last year Channel 4 News has broadcast the images of camerawoman Waad Al-Kateab as she has documented the plight of people trapped in rebel-held East Aleppo. Today, trapped in one of the last remaining rebel-held areas, with the Assad regime on the verge of taking it back, she sent us this audio message.

The Syrian army has said it is in the last moments before declaring victory in the battle to recapture the eastern part of Aleppo. Today, the situation has become more desperate by the hour for the remaining civilians.

Russia rejects Turkish claims is has committed “an obvious war crime” following the deaths of up to 50 people in bombing attacks on hospitals and schools in Syria.

A medical team is on its way to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, where 32 people are reported to have died of starvation in the last month and children are suffering from severe malnutrition.

Food aid is expected to arrive by Monday in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, where some people are starving to death, but the UN warns that the situation is also dire in other parts of the country.

Russia’s defence ministry says it has proof Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family are involved in the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic State-held territory in Syria and Iraq.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flies to Moscow to thank Russian Vladimir Putin in person for his military support.

Russia says the shelling of its embassy in the Syrian capital was an “act of terrorism” designed to intimidate “supporters of the fight against terrorism”.

Nato rejects Russia’s explanation that its incursion into Turkish air space was a mistake and says Moscow is sending more ground troops to Syria.

President Bashar al-Assad says only Russia, Syria and its allies can decide the fate of the Middle East, and that terrorism has actually spread as a result of the US-led airstrikes.

Syria will dominate a meeting of the UN general assembly in New York, with Russia pressing other countries to unite against Islamic State.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he would consider a coalition against Islamic State, but this would be unlikely to include those backing rebel groups in his country.

The death toll from Syrian government air strikes on a market in an under-siege area of Damascus passes 100, making it one of the bloodiest attacks of the four-year war.