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Tartous province: activists from the al-Metras village reported that regular forces executed a large nimber of young men, defectors and fighters who surrendered themselves on Saturday after an agreement by regular forces and key…

Dera'a province: The airforce carried out 3 air raids on the Da'el town and 1 air raid on the al-Hrak town. Reports that rebel fighters hit a Mig aircraft over Ankhel city. al-Qneitra province: The towns of Jabata…

Turkey is building a two-metre high wall along part of its border with Syria near an area of frequent fighting to try to stop people from illegally bypassing its checkpoints and prevent smuggling, officials said on Monday. Construction…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry goes as far as to praise Syrian President Bashar Assad "for complying rapidly as they are supposed to" • Even without his chemical weapons arsenal, Assad's air power and better-equipped ground forces…

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow and Washington have agreed to push for holding the planned Geneva II conference on the Syrian crisis in mid-November. In May, Russia and the US agreed to convene an…

Arab League peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi Sunday urged Syria’s warring parties to hold talks “without preconditions” and said he hoped negotiations could take place in Geneva in late November. Brahimi’s call came after both sides to the…

(CNN) -- Syrians began destroying their country's chemical weapons program Sunday, according to an international team tasked with overseeing the effort. Syrian personnel are using "cutting torches and angle grinders to destroy or…

The U.S. and Russia are set to hold their first high-level talks since sealing a deal to secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons and the onset of an apparent warming between Iran and the West. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and…

Idlib province: 4 rebel fighters were killed by clashes with regular forces in the Jabal al-Arb'in area near the Ariha city today. Rebel fighters launched mortar and artillery shells on regime strongholds in the al-Fanar restaurant…

Hama province: Reports that rebel fighters took hold of the al-Madajen checkpoint, north of the Tibet al-Imam town, after violent clashes with regular forces as of earlier this morning, rebel fighters targeted an ammunition depot…