A view shows a damaged poster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo, after the Syrian army said dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack by rebels who swept into the city ...

On November 27, a coalition of armed opposition groups, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began an offensive against government-held positions in Aleppo and Idlib provinces in the northwest of Syria.