The Syrian army and allied fighters have made fresh progress on two main fronts in central and northern Syria against the al-Qaida-affiliated militant groups, where the rebels' defenses were reportedly collapsing, the official SANA news agency reported Sunday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Thursday that U.S. military troops have started combat training for Syrian fighters to battle the Islamic State (IS), the extremist group also known as ISIS.
The extremist militant groups committed a massacre in a town they captured in northwestern Syria, killing over 30 civilians, mostly women and children, the state news agency SANA reported Sunday.
The Syrian army on Sunday unleashed a counter offensive to wrest back control over areas recently taken by the extremist groups, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported.
At least 37 armed Islamist militants were killed over the past 24 hours during intense battles with the Syrian government forces in the southern province of Daraa, a monitoring group reported Tuesday.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday urged the international community to make constructive efforts to promote the political progress in the conflict-torn Syria.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls expressed on Monday regret over U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry' s comments on possible negotiations with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to end years-long bloodshed in the Arab country.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's fresh desire to re-ignite negotiations with Syria's Assad reflects a possible shift in the international approach toward solving the conflict in Syria, analysts said.
An Israel Defense Force (IDF) officer was lightly wounded Tuesday by gunfire from across the Israeli-Syrian border, a spokesperson with the Israeli military said in a statement.
The Syrian army on Thursday killed the general military commander of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front during a "qualitative" operation in the northwestern province of Idlib, the state news agency SANA reported.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he "succeeded to withstand" the nearly four-year-old crisis in Syria thanks for the popular support he enjoys in Syria.
Visits by foreign delegations to Syria recently could indicate that the West is willing to break, even on a low profile, the isolation against the country since the war there broke out nearly four years ago, according to local political analysts.
Tens of Syrian troops and affiliated fighters were killed Wednesday in a blast staged by an array of jihadist groups near a Syrian intelligence headquarters in Aleppo, a monitoring group reported.
The head of the UN refugee agency said Thursday that the Syrian crisis has become "the worst humanitarian crisis of our times," threatening regional and global peace and security and "risking an explosion that could engulf the entire Middle East."
The Islamic State (IS) militants on Monday kidnapped 56 Syrian Christians of the Assyrian minority in a northern Syrian province, a monitoring group reported.
The agreement between Turkey and the United States on a long-anticipated deal to train and equip moderate Syrian opposition fighters does not signal that Turkey has given up on demands for no-fly zones or safe zones in Syria, Turkish analysts said.
A Syrian helicopter was reportedly downed by the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front over a military base in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib on Monday, a monitoring group reported.
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