Syrians in the Shiite Sayyidah Zaynab district south of Damascus expressed deep sorrow over the triple bombings that deprived 70 lives of their fellows and relatives earlier on Sunday.
The Syrian army wrested complete control over the town of Rabiah, the second most important rebel stronghold in the coastal province of Latakia, a week after the military forces captured the town of Salma, the the number one most important rebel bastion in that area near Turkey, state news agency SANA reported.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday agreed to meet on Jan. 20 in Zurich, Switzerland, over international issues including Syrian crisis.
China and Britain issued a statement on Syria issue in Beijing Tuesday, agreeing to advance counter-terrorism and a political settlement in parallel.
As many as 300 family members of the Islamic State (IS) militants fled a northern Syrian city following the recent military progress made by the Syrian army and a newly-formed rebel group called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a monitor group reported on Monday.
The Syrian Army General Command confirmed the killing of the leader of the Islam Army rebel group by a Syrian airstrike east of the capital Damascus on Friday, according to a statement carried by state news agency SANA.
In 2013, a ghastly video appeared online, showing a man, said to be a well-known rebel fighter, carves into the body of a government soldier and cuts out his heart and liver.
The 15-member UN Security Council Friday unanimously approved Resolution 2254 on the Syrian conflict, endorsing a roadmap for a Syrian-led political transition to end the country's crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Turkey's downing of the Russian Su-24 warplane is a hostile action and reaffirmed Russia's support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Russia and the United States pledged Tuesday joint efforts to push forward Syrian political process at the Friday peace talks held in New York.
Domestically-based Syrian opposition handed the office of the UN envoy to Syria a list of 22 names chosen to represent it in the upcoming dialogue with the Syrian government, an opposition figure told Xinhua on Tuesday.
Thai authorities have detected no connection between four Syrian nationals, who have overstayed their visas in Thailand, and the Islamic State (IS) militant group, police said Tuesday.
Four Syrian soldiers were killed on Sunday when U.S.-led coalition airplanes struck positions of government troops, pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported on Monday.
U.S.-led coalition airplanes struck positions of the Syrian army in the country's eastern province on Sunday evening, local media reported.
Russia has intensified its air strikes in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib, close to the Turkish borders, as a top Iranian official arrived on Sunday in capital Damascus for meetings with top official, reports said.
The Turkish downing of a Russian warplane aims to send a message to Moscow that there are red lines Ankara cannot tolerate to be violated, analysts say.
Russian President Vladimir Putin condemns Turkey for shooting down a Russian Su-24 warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday, while Turkish military attributes the incident to the jet's repeated violation of Turkey's airspace.
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