Bomb blasts killed more than 100 people in the Syrian coastal cities of Jableh and Tartous on Monday, monitors said, in a government-controlled area that host Russian forces.
Iraq's military said on Sunday it was preparing to launch an offensive to retake the Islamic State stronghold of Falluja and told residents to get ready to leave before fighting started.
The UN’s Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura expressed optimism yesterday that the stalled peace talks could resume
A regime air strike killed at least 13 members of the same family, including eight children, in central Syria on Wednesday, a monitor said.
At least 50 fighters and two civilians were killed Tuesday in clashes between rival anti-regime groups east of Syria's capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
US Secretary of State John Kerry met Saudi King Salman on Sunday ahead of a week of crunch talks on the conflicts in Syria and Libya.
Five young men face life behind bars after they were charged with terrorism offences over a plan to sail to Indonesia to join jihadist groups in Syria, Australian police said.
Qatar will play three European friendlies this year, the first against Albania, ahead of crucial 2018 World Cup qualifiers, coach Jose Daniel Carreno announced Saturday.
Lebanon's Hezbollah on Saturday blamed Islamist extremists for killing the Shia militant group's top military commander in Syria in an artillery attack.
US Secretary of State John Kerry was to leave for Saudi Arabia on Friday to launch a week of efforts to try to end the crises in Libya and Syria.
Lebanese militant group Hezbollah announced on Friday that its top military commander had been killed in an attack in Syria in a major blow to the coalition supporting the Damascus regime.
Syrian government forces and their allies fought insurgents near Aleppo and jets carried out raids around a nearby town seized by Islamist rebels, despite international efforts to reduce the violence.
