Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mekdad has said Damascus has created an atmosphere for reconciliation while making steady gains in the current battle against terrorists.
The Syrian army has made major advances towards Zobdin and Jasrin towns in Damascus countryside in a bid to tighten the siege of Mleiha near the capital.
The Central Committee for Syria’s Presidential Elections at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry has urged expats to cast their ballots in a presidential election slated for May 28.
Foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists operating in Syria have destroyed a Shia shrine in the northern province of Raqqa.
The Syrian army units have cleared several areas, including Aleppo, Daraa, Homs, Damascus countryside and Idlib, from foreign-backed militants, destroying their weaponry.
Russia's deputy foreign minister has said the resignation of international peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi must not disrupt diplomatic efforts to resolve the Syrian conflict.
Foreign-backed militants have agreed to release 1,500 captive families in the Syrian town of Adra in exchange for supplies and the release of jailed insurgents.
The United Nation’s top humanitarian field operations official has said more than 9 million Syrians have been displaced by the country’s conflict.
Extremist Syria insurgents may have taken over an airport where 16 containers of chemical components, which could be used to make the nerve agent Sarin and Mustard Gas, are being stored, according to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said Damascus is committed to a national reconciliation process to end the country's conflict.
At least eight people have been killed and dozens of others injured in mortar attacks carried out by foreign-backed militants operating inside Syria.
Syria's national army has made major advances on Mleiha, a strategic town located southeast of Damascus, a security official says.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has spoken with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the need to ensure that the last stockpile of Syria's chemical weapons is removed.
Mortar rounds fired by foreign-backed insurgents in Syria have struck major cities of Aleppo and Damascus, killing 16 civilians and wounding scores of others.
Clashes between Syria’s army forces and foreign-backed militants killed at least 14 insurgents in a flare-up overnight along a strategic corridor between Damascus and the Lebanese border.
The official SANA news agency said a total of four shells struck the capital's neighborhood of Shaghour in the morning hours.
A Syrian woman has declared her candidacy for the June 3 presidential race, the first female to have announced her bid for the top post, according to the local Sama TV.
Opposition fighters in the Syrian border town of Zabadani have surrendered after intense fighting with army troops, losing their last stronghold along Lebanon's border.
The Syrian government has dismissed Western and opposition accusations over the upcoming presidential polls, insisting that Damascus is planning a free and transparent election on June 3.
Syria has removed nearly 93 percent of its chemical weapons and could finish shipping out the toxic agents by the Sunday deadline, international inspectors said.