About 50 foreign-backed militants have been killed in three days of infighting among armed groups in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo.
At least eight people have been killed when foreign-sponsored militants operating inside Syria targeted a Christian neighborhood of the capital, Damascus.
Militants have killed six people in the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, officials say, in a rare attack on an area usually spared violence plaguing the country.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has thanked key backer Russia for helping his regime face down a "savage attack" by Western-backed militants, state television reported.
Iran’s deputy foreign minister has called for a halt to the influx of weapons to the foreign-backed militants in Syria, which has aggravated the humanitarian crisis in the country.
Top diplomats of Russia and the United States have announced a deal on a framework for the destruction or removal of Syria’s chemical weapons by mid 2014 on the third day of their talks on the issue.
France, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan have agreed to strengthen foreign-backed militants in Syria, Paris says.
The Syrian army has taken control of more than 90 percent of the Christian town of Ma’loula in Rif Dimashq, al-Alam correspondent reports from the center of the town.
The Syrian army has continued its operations in Rif Dimashq to clear the areas controlled by foreign-backed militants.
A foreign-backed militant in Syria has said militants from the Caucasus have formed an independent force to fight the Syrian army forces.
US President Barack Obama said Saturday that he has decided the United States should launch military strikes against Syria after the American intelligence community claimed Damascus used chemical weapons against foreign-backed militants.
Some 40 foreign-backed militants have died after a car bomb they were preparing exploded in eastern Syria, al-Alam reports.
Syria’s Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar al-Jaafari has accused foreign-backed militants of using banned arms to persuade foreign powers to attack the Arab country.
Foreign-backed militants in Syria have assassinated the governor of Hama province in a car bombing, state television reports.
The Syrian government has accused foreign-backed militants of using chemical weapons in Rif Dimashq.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says more than 40,000 Syrians fled their country to seek refuge in Iraq's Kurdistan region in recent days amid escalating violence by foreign-backed militants.
Syrian army soldiers have found chemical agents in tunnels dug by the foreign-backed militants in a northeastern suburb of the capital, Damascus, Syrian TV says.
A Jordanian Salafist group has confirmed over 20 American and European militants have been killed in Syria.
Syria’s Information Minister has described the pictures of chemical patients as preplanned and fabricated.
Syrian army has seized a large pack of arms in Rif al-Qusayr, along Syria’s borders with Lebanon, as a group of militants were trying to smuggle it, al-Alam reports.