Fighting in Aleppo between the Syrian army and the Kurdish-led SDF has forced thousands of people to flee.
Russian submarine and warship are in the vicinity as the US operation unfolds, news report says.
Chief of staff Kyrylo Budanov says progress has been made at key Paris summit.
Violence follows collapse of talks aimed at absorption of semiautonomous Kurdish forces by state institutions.
The Syrian army has declared Aleppo’s Kurdish areas 'closed military zones' and ordered civilians to leave.
Tens of thousands of people have crossed into Burundi to escape violence in the eastern DRC.
Thousands of people have been fleeing their homes ahead of a curfew in the Syrian city of Aleppo.
“They[STC] basically said, Aidarous [al-Zubaidi] feared that if he's going to go to Riyadh…"
Norway and Qatar have made mediation not an instrument of goodwill but a core instrument of security policy.
'We must live, we must hope', say returnees who were displaced for a decade from homes in Malam Fatori, Borno State.