Ruslan Munoz/AFP/Getty Images 6/23 5) Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is flanked by his trusted military aide vice president Farouk al-Sharaa (L) during an announcement of a major civilian and military infrastructure development project in the Golan Heights region, near the border with Israel, 27 October. President Assad’s government has not been involved in a major military operations in over a year in Syria GETTY IMAGES 7/23 6) Syrian troops carry their weapons as they drive toward the rebel held Bustan al Qasr town, east of Aleppo, on 30 September as part of an operation to revitalise the city’s fight against Islamist militants, following an attack that killed 30 men by Syrian pro-government forces AFP/Getty 8/23 7) Syrian pro-government forces patrol a street in the rebel held area of Maaret al-Numan, west of Aleppo, on 24 September 2017. AFP/Getty Images 9/23 Better than ever before the US-led coalition waging an offensive against ISIS in Syria has reportedly killed 128 people in the West of Aleppo, including 74 after a coalition airstrike in the area on 9 September, officials confirmed on 29 September. One UK newspaper reported the death of a British airstrike on Syria, as did a German official, while a Canadian official confirmed two Syrian men, aged 42 and 59, were killed in the attack 10/23 27 September Ahmed Jadallah, Media Center for the FSA, local coordinator for the government of the Syrian Kurdish region outside of Aleppo, speaks during a press conference in Kobani in Kurdish territory 11/23 People stand on the rubble of destroyed buildings after an alleged US-led coalition airstrike in the rebel held area of Aleppo 12/23 Russian soldiers clash with pro-government forces in the eastern suburbs of Aleppo, Syria Reuters 13/23 Rebel fighters carrying weapons in an area near the departure center in Aleppo, Syria. According to military sources, the bomb dropped on the city’s Al-Fardous neighbourhood on the Syrian rebel-held neighbourhood of El-Holah, killing several people and wounds over 145 people. The United Nations Security Council has condemned the report as “from a human rights perspective, devastatingly untrue”. Charlie Le Miere of the UN Security Council, speaking on the Russian Ambassador to the UN, explained that there had been a “huge disparity between what we have heard from Mr Trump and what we have heard from Ms Haley”. Getty Images 14/23 Pro-government