Damascus signed an oil and gas deal with a Russian company Wednesday which will allow for the first-ever exploration off Syria's coast.
A high-ranking Russian official says the internationally brokered Syrian peace talks next month will be impossible without the participation of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Muslims in Syria have held mourning rituals on Arbaeen, the 40th day after the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS), the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the third Shia imam.
The al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is recruiting children and locals in Syria for fighting against the Syrian government, a report says.
Several foreign militants have been killed in a mop-up operation carried out by Syrian army aagainst terrorist groups in the city of Duma, northeast of the capital, Damascus.
Syria is living a tragedy that is bearing heavily on all Syrians, says Patriarch Gregory III Laham of Antioch, the spiritual leader of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.
Syria has lashed out at the United States, describing it as a "one-eyed pirate," a day after Washington condemned Syrian government over its aerial attack on Aleppo.
Syria militants have attacked two sites where chemical arms were stored, a Syrian foreign ministry source has said.
A Salafi movement in Jordan has revealed that nearly 10,000 foreign militants were killed in Syria since the foreign-hatched conflict hit the country in 2011.
The al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has compelled Druze community in the Syrian province of Idlib to announce their conversion to "Islam" although they are officially acknowledged as Muslims in Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.