Saudi Arabia has offered Russia economic incentives including a major arms deal and a pledge not to challenge Russian gas sales if Moscow scales back support for the Syrian government, Middle East sources and Western diplomats says.
Two years after relentless support for terrorist groups in Syria, now Washington and Ankara voice concerns about aiding anti-Damascus extremists involved in the crisis in the country.
At least five people have been killed and dozens more wounded after terrorists in Syria launched a mortar attack on the holy shrine of Sayyidah Zaynab in a Damascus suburb.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has attended the Eid al-Fitr prayers in Damascus to end rumors that his motorcade came under mortar attacks earlier in the capital.
Syrian troops have intercepted and defused several bombs weighing one and half a ton during their clashes with foreign backed militants near suburb of northwestern city of Idlib.
The war in Syria poses the greatest threat to US security because of the risk of the government falling and the country becoming a weapons-rich haven for Al-Qaeda, a CIA official says.
Syrian army units have attacked hideouts of foreign-backed militants in Aleppo suburbs of Khan al-Asal, Andan and village of Mayer, killing a number of the insurgents.
The United States and the European Union (EU) on Wednesday expressed concern about the " dangerous stalemate" in Egypt, as the country's interim president announced failed foreign mediation efforts.
A main commander of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front has been killed in clashes with the Syrian army in the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr, Al-Alam reported.
Chechen and Caucasian extremists have been dispatched to Syria to fight alongside with al-Qaeda elements in Syria’s foreign-hatched civil war, a report says.