The Latest Breaking News from Aleppo

The Syrian opposition’s recent capture of the country’s largest city of Aleppo caught much of the international community by surprise. After the involvement of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah in the prolonged Syrian civil war, many observers assumed that Bashar al-Assad’s forces had won the conflict.

Rebel groups ousted Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria on Sunday after 13 years of civil war

Distracted by wars elsewhere, president Bashar al-Assad’s military allies Russia, Iran, and Lebanon’s Hezbollah failed to mobilise the kind of decisive firepower that had propped him up for years

Large anti-Assad demonstrations in Aleppo after regime collapse. Rebel forces entered city last week.