A car bomb went off in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Saturday, leaving unknown losses, pro-government Sham FM radio reported.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Thursday that political solutions are the only way to stamp out the Syrian crisis.
The Islamic State (IS) claimed to have downed a Syrian military helicopter in the countryside of the central province of Homs on Tuesday.
Warplanes carried out two airstrikes on a rebel-held city in the countryside of Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday, killing 10 people and wounding tens of others, a monitor group reported.
The U.S. foreign policy has always been criticized as being smeared with double-standards, but as the U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently admitted she'd made a mistake by voting in favor of waging war on Iraq, a question has popped whether the U.S. could ever learn from its old mistakes.
Head of the Syrian government delegation Bashar al-Jaafari told press Tuesday that his team will leave Geneva tomorrow as planned after convening for the last time with UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura in the latest round of intra-Syrian proximity talks.
Intense battles continued Thursday between the forces loyal to the Syrian government and Kurdish fighting groups, a monitor group reported.
Syrian university students participated in Wednesday's parliamentary elections, hoping the candidates would secure job opportunities for them.
The United Nations special envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura on Thursday said the second phase of Syrian peace talks seeking to broker a political end to the five-year conflict is scheduled to start on April 13.
Over the past week, the Islamic State (IS) group has lost two important strongholds in central Syria, namely the ancient oasis city of Palmyra and the nearby city of Qaryatain in the eastern countryside of the central province of Homs.
A senior Russian diplomat said Monday that discussions about the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be removed from the current agenda of peace negotiations.
Antiquities experts will head soon to the reclaimed ancient caravan city of Palmyra for precise damage assessment done by the Islamic State (IS) group, a Syrian antiquities official told Xinhua on Wednesday.
A military aircraft landed on Monday in the airbase of Palmyra, the first since government troops recaptured the city from Islamic State (IS) militants, Syrian TV reported.
As the second week of UN-mediated Syrian talks prepares to get underway, warring factions are still at loggerheads over a number of issues though relative progress has been made since proximity discussions started on Monday.
Syrian opposition delegate Bassma Kodmani stressed on Thursday the High Negotiations Committee's (HNC) wish to move quickly with ongoing talks so as to find a solution to the Syrian crisis within a six month timeframe.
Five years after massive anti-government protests across Syria, the country is still mired in a prolonged civil war that could trace its origin to the intervention by the U.S.-led West.
Russia's sudden announcement of troops withdrawal from Syria sends a positive signal that a political settlement of the five-year-old crisis is in the offing.
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