Differences between the United States and Saudi Arabia over Middle East policy persist, despite their great attempts to create a chaos in Syria to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
France wants to deter youths from fighting with foreign backed militant groups in Syria's civil war, and is planning a series of tough-love measures that answer the pleas of parents and seek to protect the nation from battle-hardened returnees.
Almost 3.5 million civilians in Syria have virtually no access to desperately needed humanitarian aid and people are dying needlessly every day as violence and extremism escalate and the risk of sectarian violence grows, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.
A powerful car bomb exploded Friday outside a mosque in a pro-government district of central Syria, killing 14 people in the latest violence to hit the war-shattered city, state-run Syrian television reported.
The Syrian army advanced in the central city of Homs Friday, Al-Mayadeen television reported.
Militants embattled against the government of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad have reportedly come into possession of high-powered anti-tank weaponry, the likes of which may have been supplied by the United States.
A former Russian prime minister who recently met Bashar al-Assad said the Syrian president told him that much of the fighting in the country's civil war would be over by the end of the year, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Monday.
Battles raged Thursday over key flashpoints in Syria's Latakia province, a monitoring group said, nearly two weeks into an offensive by militant groups against the heartland of President Bashar al-Assad's clan and his Alawite sect.
Syrian army troops recaptured on Monday a key position in coastal Latakia province, a bastion for Syria army, state television said, as militants press a campaign in the region.
German authorities arrested three people with alleged ties to a Syrian militant groups Monday in police raids across the country, the federal prosecutor's office said.
The Syrian army killed or wounded scores of Nusra Front militants in an ambush near the Lebanese border region of Wadi Khaled Thursday, security sources said.
The Syrian conflict has caused the world's largest refugee crisis as it has forced 40 percent of the population from their homes, the UN refugee agency said Friday in Geneva.
Turkey warned Friday to retaliate "in kind" if a historic tomb that it controls inside war-torn Syria came under attack.
Police working on separate operations in three European countries have arrested 19 people suspected of involvement in the Syrian war, officials say.
The trial of 19 Belgians on terrorism charges began Monday under tight security amid concerns the 15 men and 4 women were part of a local network for recruitment of militants for Syria war.
It has been more than a month since the terrorist group of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was driven out of the Syrian town of Addana, but gruesome evidence of the brutal rule and executions remains here on a par with people's fears to speak openly as the memories of ISIS atrocities are still alive.
Around 250 British militants have returned to the UK after training and fighting in Syria, a senior Whitehall security official told the Sunday Times.
The Syrian army recaptured on Monday an Alawite village in central Hama province where foreign backed militants massacred civilians earlier this month, state news agency SANA said.
Clandestine groups affiliated to terrorist group of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and some other Syrian extremist groups including al-Nusra Front have started to be expanded across Kuwait, al-Seyassah newspaper reported.
Foreign backed militant groups detonated mines in tunnels under a hotel in northern Syria's Aleppo on Friday, killing at least five, activists said.