Syrian war

It was an attack that was shocking in both its scale and ruthless targeting.

A Briton who was a leading developer of the online currency Bitcoin and projected as a future billionaire, has been under police investigation for going to Syria to fight against the Islamic State group.

US-backed Syrian fighters say they’ve cut the main road south from the city of Raqqa, a stronghold of the extremist Islamic State group.

With the breakdown of the ceasefire, thousands of civilians are still trapped in the nightmare that is rebel-held Aleppo: an ever shrinking enclave, where the shelling has barely paused, where witnesses say bodies still lie in the streets.

Interviews with Zuhir Al Shamali, a citizen journalist in the last rebel-held enclave in Aleppo, and Brita Haji Hassan, the Mayor of East Aleppo, who is currently in Paris.

Sources say some 110 medical staff remained in eastern Aleppo’s last remaining hospital as of midnight last night.