Foreign backed militant groups detonated mines in tunnels under a hotel in northern Syria's Aleppo on Friday, killing at least five, activists said.
A Syrian opposition negotiator Ahmad Jakal said on Friday that UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi plans to take Syrian peace talks into a third round.
An al Qaeda splinter group in Syria executed at least 13 people including relatives of fighters from rival rebel groups before withdrawing from a town near Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
Syria's warring sides headed Friday into a decisive day for the faltering peace process, under pressure to agree on an agenda to save the deadlocked Geneva talks from collapse.
The governor of the central Syrian province of Homs says a cease-fire has been extended for three days as of Thursday.
Syrians have held demonstrations in support of President Bashar al-Assad and the country’s armed forces, which are battling a foreign-sponsored insurgency.
Syrian Army forces have continued their military campaign in Qalamoun region after it took control over the areas of Rima Farms and Jarajir, bordering the Lebanese town of Arsal.
Foreign-sponsored Takfiri insurgents in Syria have abducted dozens of Palestinian refugees from the nation’s capital, Damascus.
Russia said on Thursday that its own draft UN Security Council resolution on bringing aid to desperate Syrian civilians does not include the threat of sanctions on Damascus.
Russia says a Western-Arab draft U.N. Security Council resolution on humanitarian aid access in Syria will lay the groundwork for more heinous crimes to done by extremist groups.