The Islamic State (IS) militant group has taken part of a strategic mountain overlooking the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria after intense battles with Kurdish militants, the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Sunday.
Lebanon is confronting one of its toughest challenges in recent years, as Islamist militants from the war in Syria cross the border to battle the Lebanese army in the eastern border town of Arsal, threatening to rupture Lebanon's already fragile political situation.
For weeks Syrian officials have slammed U.S. plans to strike the Islamic State (IS) militant group on its soil, saying the move violates it sovereignty. But some analysts say Damascus has toned down its fiery rhetoric and now even tacitly supports the airstrikes against the armed group that has been wreaking havoc on the region.
The Syrian army has confirmed the downing of a Syrian war jet by Israel over the Israeli- occupied Golan Heights earlier on Tuesday, according to the official SANA news agency.
The Syrian forces killed up to 32 rebels on Wednesday in the countryside of capital Damascus, local media reported.
The Islamic State (IS) militants killed more than 160 Syrian soldiers who were captured by the terrorist group in the northern al-Raqqa province, according to activists' reports and online video footages published on Thursday.
The OPCW-UN joint mission has made "significantly good progress" in eliminating Syria's chemical stockpiles.
Expectations are "low" for this week's Syria peace talks in Geneva as violence continues unabated in the embattled Middle East country, U.S. experts told Xinhua.
The swearing-in ceremony of President Bashar al-Assad was held Wednesday and followed by an inauguration speech, in which Assad outlined the features of his third seven-year-term in office, basically continuing to fight terrorism, support national reconciliation and embark on reconstruction process.
The ongoing Syria crisis, which began more than three years ago, shows no signs of abating, with infighting among rebel groups intensifying and the humanitarian situation worsening.
Visiting German Foreign Affairs Ministers Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Thursday that the problem in the Syrian crisis is not refugees but rather the ongoing violence and parties that "refuse to find a solution."
The Syrian parliament announced on Wednesday the name of the first candidate who registered for the presidential elections, the official SANA news agency reported.
Visiting Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Tuesday that the Syrian crisis has inflicted a huge burden on Lebanon, and that Australia will continue its support to Lebanon on the Syrian refugee issue.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said here Monday that his country is looking into increasing aid to Syrian refugees in Jordan, local media reported.
Damascus slammed Turkey for shooting down its warplane "in the Syrian territory" on Sunday afternoon, saying it reflected Turkey's involvement in supporting the armed terrorist groups in the war-torn country.
Russia on Monday cautioned UN-Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi not to take sides in the Syrian domestic conflict.
Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al- Moallem said Sunday that the second round of talks in the Geneva II conference hasn't failed, according to the official SANA news agency.
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