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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday that Russia was responsible for recent chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian province of East Gutha, AFP reports.

Talks aimed at ending the war in Syria restarted on Nov. 28 with the Damascus regime enforcing its will, warning the United Nations it would not tolerate any discussion of President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster from power.  

Russia must end "blind support" for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and help find a political solution to the six-year Syrian civil war, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said April 18.

In an address to parliament, Johnson told MPs that the U.K. could join the U.S. in airstrikes against the Assad regime.

"When you enter a refugee family's home, you immediately understand what their future plans are," said Sinan Kılıç, a photographer who has been working on documentaries of refugees and migrants for the last five years.

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution supporting efforts by Russia and Turkey to end the nearly six-year conflict in Syria and jumpstart peace negotiations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a "fragile" agreement on a ceasefire in Syria has been reached among warring factions, TASS news agency reports.

There is "readiness" to kick off peace talks, he is quoted as saying.

Syrian refugee children are reportedly working in factories in Turkey making clothes for British high street retailer Marks & Spencer and online store ASOS, an investigation by BBC Panorama found. 

Matteo Renzi in Bruxelles - Photo: Governo Italiano

BELGRADE - European Union leaders condemned Russia on Friday for its bombing in Syria's besieged city of Aleppo but faced resistance from Italy to impose new sanctions against Moscow, Reuters reports.

Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked a major Aleppo hospital out of service on Sept. 28, hospital workers said, and ground forces intensified an assault on the city's besieged rebel sector, in a battle that has become a potentially decisive turning point in the civil war. 

The U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has warned that the planned resumption of troubled peace talks on Feb. 25 was not realistic, a Swedish newspaper reported Feb. 19, one week after the countries supporting a solution in Syria had reached a "cessation of hostilities."