Syrian President Bashar al-Assad asserted that combating terrorism begins by pressuring the states that support and fund terrorist organizations in Syria and Iraq and that are now claiming to combat terrorism, SANA reported.
The Syrian army regained control over Kfarhud town in Hamah northern countryside, killing and injuring dozens of militants.
Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoabi described as illogical the participation of terrorism-supporting countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey in conferences for combating terrorism.
Hundreds of UN troops withdrew from the Syrian to the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan on Monday, two weeks after Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents kidnapped dozens of peacekeepers.
"The so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' terrorist organization (ISIL) cleared many of its main headquarters in the Syrian provinces of Aleppo and Raqqa and moved weapons to safer new warehouses," private sources told Al-Manar Website.
The Pentagon plans to train and arm 5,000 militants in Syria as part of the Obama administration’s long-term strategy to confront the ISIL terrorist organization.
The ISIL terrorist group, which is operating in Syria and Iraq, is using weapons provided by the United States, an American peace activist says.
An ISIL member who was arrested by Iraqi troops confessed that terrorists are still using Turkey as the main route to Syria.
Invoking the same ominous language as his predecessor, Barack Obama used a prime time presidential address on Wednesday to announce the beginning of a war on Syria.
More than 60,000 babies have been born to Syrian refugee families living in Turkey since the unrest broke out in Syria more than three years ago