
At least 22 militants have been killed during clashes near the border between Syria and Lebanon.
Turkey on Wednesday reacted furiously to a US plan to arm Syrian Kurdish fighters whom Ankara considers terrorists, but the force battling jihadists said the move would hasten the extremists' defeat.
Syria's future - and that of the United States and Russia - is balancing on a knife-edge following a US air strike on a Syrian government airbase.
Haitham Al Maleh is a leading figure in Syria’s opposition and has spent many years in prison. SBS' Yaara Bou Melhem meets the man who hopes to be the next Syrian president.
However, clashes continue in Syria's Sweida province, which has been engulfed by nearly a week of violence.
Nearly 70 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, a monitor said on Sunday.
The rapid developments in Damascus came only hours after rebels said they had captured the strategic city of Homs.
Israel has struck the headquarters of the Syrian army in Damascus, a compound that also houses the defence ministry, in the third day of its attacks.
The Syrian Democratic Force is attempting to expel IS from the village of Baghuz.
Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem has used his address to the UN to demand an immediate withdrawal of all US and Turkish troops from his country.
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