Syria's Minister of Justice Najm al-Ahmad said Monday that his country is facing a ferocious wave of terrorism, warning of the repercussions of such terrorism on the international community.
The Syrian troops on Thursday advanced in a contested town in the southern province of Daraa and killed a local commander of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front in that town, according to the state news agency SANA.
Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi on Thursday slammed the U.S. State Department statement that condemned the Syrian airstrikes against the northern province of al-Raqqa, saying the statement contains fabricated accusations, according to the official SANA news agency.
The Islamic State (IS) militants on Sunday downed a Syrian war jet over the country's eastern province of Deir al-Zour, the first war jet the terror group has managed to shoot down since it had captured large swathes of land in that oil-rich province, a monitoring group reported.
The Syrian troops on Thursday killed tens of "terrorists" in the countryside of the predominantly Kurdish city of Ayn al-Arab, also known as Kobane, in northern Syria, according to the state news agency SANA.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday confirmed that American hostage Peter Kassig had been killed by Islamic State (IS) militants.
At least 20 fighters of the al- Qaida-linked Nusra Front were killed and 30 others wounded Wednesday by the Syrian troops in a rugged region north of the capital Damascus, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported.
The UN Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, on Monday held "constructive discussions" with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Syrian government officials in Damascus, the Envoy's office said.
A total of eight fighters of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front were killed during clashes with the Syrian government troops in the country's southern province of Daraa on Thursday, a monitoring group said.
The Islamic State (IS) militants on Tuesday captured three gas wells in Syria's central province of Homs, the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported.
Turkey is further boosting security measures along the Turkish-Syrian border in a bid to confront threats from the Islamic State (IS) in Syria by sending military tanks to southeastern Turkey, private Cihan News Agency reported on Thursday.
Syria on Thursday accused Turkey of aiding terrorists in the country, saying that such support has helped prolong the Syrian conflict, the state news agency SANA reported.
A Syrian opposition figure said the U.S. coalition strikes against the Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria serves for the ultimate defragmentation of the war-torn country in the long run.
The Syrian troops on Thursday thwarted an infiltration attempt by the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front in the al-Qalamoun region north of the capital Damascus, killing 57 of them, according to the state news agency SANA.
The Islamic State (IS) militants captured three neighborhoods in the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria on Monday, the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
The Syrian troops on Monday dislodged the rebels from a strategic area in the eastern countryside of the capital Damascus, the official SANA news agency reported.
At least 35 fighters of the Islamic State (IS) militant group were killed Saturday by the strikes of the U.S.-led anti-terror coalition in northern Syria, the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was cited by the pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV as saying.
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