Across Aleppo, residents and the new authorities seemed eager to get rid ... a country where opposition was not tolerated; the secret police, known as the Mukhabarat, seemed to be everywhere ...

Aleppo police chief, Zuher Said Aldin, told the Rossiya 24 TV channel. "There are no military units there, only schools. Nevertheless, militants carried out a strike on this area, moreover ...

SANA news agency reported on Thursday citing sources in the Aleppo police. Three people died in the shelling, two of them children. "Militants opened fire from the Rashidin area on the western ...

ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers with Syria’s new government were speeding through the streets of Aleppo in pursuit of a man who had been spotted ...

THE NEW FORCE The scale of the crisis confronting the new force was starkly apparent ... who headed the police academy in the ...

THE NEW FORCE The scale of the crisis confronting ... academy in the former rebel enclave before he was appointed police chief in Aleppo. The religious instruction offered recruits includes ...