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Syrian aircraft hit Aleppo, killing 15: Activists

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 21:15

Syrian military aircraft targeted rebel-held districts in the northern city of Aleppo for the third straight day on Tuesday , killing at least 15 people, activists said.

Al Qaeda militants kill over 100 Syrians near Damascus

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 17, 2013, 07:17

Radical rebels from the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front have massacred more than 100 people in a suburb of the capital Damascus, the country`s foreign ministry said Monday.

Syrian army regains town near Damascus

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 01:56

Syrian troops Monday fully recaptured a strategic town north of the capital Damascus, media reported Monday.

Syrian forces take control of road needed to remove chemical weapons

Last Updated: Monday, December 9, 2013, 18:31

Syrian Army has taken full control of a highway connecting Damascus to the coast which is needed to ship out chemical weapons from the country for destruction.

Syria nuns appear in video, deny kidnapped by rebels

Last Updated: Saturday, December 7, 2013, 10:21

A group of nuns from the historic Christian town of Maalula in Syria have denied they were kidnapped by rebels, in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera news channel.

Deadly rocket attack on regime in Syria`s Aleppo

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 22:34

Rockets killed at least 18 people on Wednesday in regime-held areas of Syria`s main northern city of Aleppo, a focal point of the 33-month conflict pitting loyalists against rebels.

Syria rebels capture Christian town of Maalula: NGO

Last Updated: Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 10:23

Syrian rebels, including jihadist groups, have captured the historic Christian town of Maalula north of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

UN implicates Syrian president in war crimes

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 23:21

The UN human rights chief has said an inquiry has produced evidence that war crimes in Syria were actually authorised at the "highest level", including by President Bashar al-Assad, BBC reported Monday.

50 killed in air strikes on Syria`s al Bab: NGO

Last Updated: Monday, December 2, 2013, 01:07

A two-day wave of regime air strikes on a north Syrian town has killed 50 people, a monitor said on Sunday, while in Damascus a mortar round struck the French school without causing injuries.

European envoys back on road to Damascus

Last Updated: Saturday, November 30, 2013, 14:04

European ambassadors and intelligence officials are making discreet trips to Damascus in a bid to resume contacts with the Syrian regime after years of outspoken support for the opposition, diplomats say.

One killed, nine injured in shelling of Russian embassy in Damascus

Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2013, 12:11

One Syrian was killed and nine others were injured during a mortar shelling of the Russian embassy in Damascus, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

Syrian Army takes town, and upper hand

Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2013, 09:42

Syrian troops recaptured the strategic town of Deir Attiyeh on Thursday, less than a week after losing it, taking the advantage in its bid to crush rebels just north of Damascus.