A Syrian helicopter has crashed after it was targeted by Turkish warplanes, Turkish deputy Prime Minister has said.
People have completely evacuated the strategic town of Barzeh in Syria’s Rif Dimashq following heavy clashes between the anti-Syria militants and army soldiers, al-Alam reports.
UN investigators know of 14 potential chemical attacks in Syria since they began monitoring human rights abuses in the country in September 2011.
UN human rights investigators have shed light on the crimes and killings committed by western-backed terrorist groups in Syria.
Hundreds of al-Nusra Front militants have been killed in clashes with the Syrian army in the Syrian Christian town of Maalula, as they tried to enter and occupy the area.
Damascus is committed to act on the stockpile of chemical weapons in Syria based on UN decisions, Syria’s information minister has said.
More than 4.5 million Syrian students have started the new school year of 2013-2014 amid a bloody insurgency led by extremist militants who have shown no mercy on people trapped in the foreign-backed war in Syria.
A British defense study shows that militants fighting against Syria now number around 100,000 fighters, which are fragmented into around 1,000 bands.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has received a report by UN experts on a reported chemical attack in the suburbs of Syrian capital last month.
Al-Qaeda-affiliated extremists in Syria have confessed targeting and massacring dozens of people in three Homs villages dominated by Alawites last week.