Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov has called for an emergency Security Council meeting to discuss the crimes committed by armed insurgent groups against the residents of Syrian Kassab city in Lattakia countryside, near the border with Turkey.
Kuwait's justice and Islamic affairs minister has rejected remarks by a senior American official stating that he called for jihad in Syria and promoted the funding of terrorism.
Twenty-three armed militants in Syria’s Homs old city have surrendered to government authorities in the neighborhoods of al-Qarabees and Joret al-Shayyah as part of over 100 former insurgents that have turned themselves in since last week.
Syrian forces have continued military operations against foreign-backed insurgents across the war-ravaged country, attacking numerous staging areas, weapon manufacturing plants and hideouts and inflicting heavy losses on their forces and war machines.
The Israeli regime is pursuing a joint arrangement with Saudi Arabia to provide military training for foreign-backed insurgents in Syria that aim to destabilize and overthrow the Damascus government.
The Syrian army is trying to retake the Christian majority town of Kessab reportedly seized by al-Qaeda-linked forces. The attack made hundreds of ethnic Armenians flee and caused international outcry with Armenia blaming Turkey for supporting extremists.
A group of Syrian artists have created the world's largest mural made of recycled materials, setting a new Guinness record.
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.
Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faissal Mikhdad has emphasized that despite his government’s commitment to its obligations on chemical weapons destruction, some countries are trying to politicize this file and support armed insurgent groups that have committed the most hideous crimes in Syria.