A Syrian protester has died after he was run over by a Turkish military vehicle conducting a joint patrol with Russian troops in north-eastern Syria, a Kurdish spokesman and a Syrian war monitor said.

The UK government and mainstream media say Syria president Bashar Al-Assad is killing his own people in Syria. 

Fires sparked by clashes between government troops and rebels raged through the medieval marketplace of Aleppo today, destroying hundreds of shops lining the vaulted passageways where foods, fabrics, perfumes and spices have been sold for centuries, activists said.

SYRIA’S army stormed another two towns yesterday in pursuit of anti-regime protesters, activists said, in defiance of Western calls for action after a “chilling” UN Security Council briefing.