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Syrian government airstrikes on rebel-held areas near Damascus killed at least 35 civilians and more than hundreds are injured, on Wednesday.

At least 60 people were killed and scores injured on Wednesday in multiple airstrikes by the Syrian regime on a town in Damascus’ opposition-held Eastern Ghouta suburb, according to a local medical source. On Wednesday Amnesty worldwide published a report arguing the Syrian...

The visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday discussed with President Bashar al-Assad ways to solve the Syrian crisis, the state news agency SANA reported.

The two Shia villages of Al-Foua and Kefraya, meanwhile, have been targeted in a parallel offensive by an insurgent alliance that includes both the hardline Ahrar Al-Sham and the local Al-Qaeda affiliate, the Nusra Front.

The Observatory said rebels fired a barrage of at least 50 rockets and put the toll at five dead – four civilians and a soldier – with 59 people hurt.

To make the operations effective, deployment of ground troops is a prerequisite, and the United States has been exerting efforts toward this end by training local forces. Other estimates have put ISIS numbers even higher.

Damascus could agree to join the worldwide coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) should it be requested, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Rossiya-1 television channel on Sunday, TASS reported.

Until recently, only reconnaissance drones took off escapades from Incirlik.

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem was quoted by state television on Wednesday as saying Syria supported efforts to combat ISIL, provided they were coordinated with Damascus.

Officials said that so far, none of the drones had launched airstrikes, but they may begin soon.

The U.S. military is expanding its combat role in Syria in defense of coalition-backed rebels, conducting armed drone missions into Syria from an air base in Turkey and imposing new rules allowing the U.S.to defend rebels against attacks from any hostile force, including the...

The new “defensive” air power strategy was reportedly first implemented on Friday, when U.S.-backed rebels came under fire from al-Nusra Front, a group closely affiliated with al-Qaeda.

U.S. warplanes already struck last week, bombarding Al Qaeda-linked Syrian rebels who had attacked the Pentagon-backed force.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was not immediately clear how numerous deaths in the northwestern town had resulted from the crash and how many were killed in the bombing run.