Syrian army has launched a major operation in Homs countryside which left at least one hundred foreign-backed militants dead.
A huge explosion has occurred at a suburban region of Syrian capital of Damascus, causing an unknown number of casualties, the state media reports.
A spokesman for the abducted Lebanese pilgrims who were abducted a year ago in Syria says they have been freed through a prisoners swap deal.
Militants have assassinated a top Syrian army general, Jamaa Jamaa, while on duty in eastern Syria, state-run Syrian television has said.
The world's chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday that it had completed nearly half its inspections of Syria's arsenal.
A top Syrian official has said that International peace talks on the Syria conflict could take place on November 23-24.
Syrian militants withdrew from a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday after heavy fighting with government troops, an activist group said.
Amnesty International accused Egypt Thursday of unlawfully detaining and deporting hundreds of Syrian refugees, many of them women and children fleeing civil war at home.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has visited 11 sites in Syria in line with a disarmament mission in the Arab country.
Syrian army soldiers have recaptured a strategic town in south of capital Damascus from militants, the state TV has reported.