Turkish troops backed by Syrian rebel fighters have entered the centre of the Islamic State group bastion of Al-Bab and will soon capture it, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday.
Russian engineer troops have cleared mines in an area of nearly 70 hectares in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo during the past 24 hours, the Defense Ministry's Center for Syrian reconciliation said Tuesday.
The Syrian army said on Friday that Israeli missile strikes caused a series of explosions at an airbase outside Damascus before dawn.
Syrian government aircraft bombed a rebel-held district that is the capital's main water source on Friday as the rival sides traded blame over a cut to mains supplies, a monitor said.
An alleged Islamic State jihadist accused of scoping out potential targets for an attack in Berlin, including the Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag building, goes on trial in Germany on Wednesday.
Calm prevailed most Syrian cities on Saturday, since a nationwide ceasefire was activated at midnight Friday, despite some clashes, a monitor group reported on Saturday.
The main wish of the residents of the northern city of Aleppo for the new year is to be able to rebuild their broken homes and bring their war-shattered city to life again.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov voiced his concerns over possible U.S. arms deliveries to Syrian rebels in a phone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
France and Britain are pushing the UN Security Council to ban the sale of helicopters to Syria and to impose the first sanctions over the use of chemical weapons in the five-year war.
Arab foreign ministers welcomed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to quickly deploy UN observers to Aleppo, the Arab League said in a statement late Monday.
The United Nations(UN) intends to convene the Syrian peace talks in Geneva on Feb. 8, 2017, the Spokesperson of the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Syria said in a statement here on Monday.
Dozens of buses and ambulances drove out of the rebel-held part of Aleppo yesterday, carrying people being evacuated as part of a ceasefire deal after a siege by Syrian government forces and their allies that lasted for months.
A Chinese envoy on Tuesday told the UN Security Council that it was all the more important for the international community to seek a political settlement to the Syrian crisis since current situation there is complex and sensitive.
The Syrian army and its allies are in the "last moments before declaring victory" in Aleppo, a Syrian military source said, after rebel defences collapsed on Monday, leaving insurgents in a tiny, heavily bombarded pocket of ground.
Russia and China on Monday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for a seven-day ceasefire in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo.
The rapid victories the Syrian army is achieving in the northern city of Aleppo and the possible quick retrieve of the city will be the Syrian government's biggest win in the five-year-old war, and the rebels worst defeat, analysts say.
Syrian government forces have gained control of the northern section of the rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo city in northern Syria, a monitor group reported on Monday.
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