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Russian Federation supports Assad while Saudi Arabia insists he must step down to help end a four-year conflict that has cost over 240,000 lives. That represented a significant shift and an opening of channels between two countries that have become arch foes in Syria’s conflict.

Douma is situated within the Syrian insurgent stronghold of Japanese Ghouta and is a daily goal of presidency air strikes.

Saudi Arabia King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is scheduled to visit Russian Federation by the end of this year, an indication that the relations between the countries are improving drastically. The opposition insists that his removal is fundamental to a peace deal. And that is...

An Israeli defense official said the people killed in Friday’s air strike were Palestinian militants from the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad.

The Israeli regime’s air force carried out a drone strike in southern Syria on Friday, killing five people, while a soldier was killed and seven wounded in an air raid overnight, Syrian state TV reported.

The UN statement was approved one day after Assad regime warplanes struck a rebel-held town near Damascus, killing at least 96 people.

A new Islamic State video is taking aim at Turkey, issuing a call to arms to “conquer Istanbul”.

A US drone had last week executed a single lethal airstrike against an ISIS target in Syria but this was the first time manned US fighter jets had carried out raids after taking off from Turkey’s strategically-located Incirlik base.

O’Brien said unnamed armed groups, of which there are many in Syria, cut water supplies to Damascus’ population of five million, and to two million in Aleppo.

Missouri The United States presented its first manned air strikes against Islamic State manages from the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey on Wednesday, the You can introduce.S. navy said.

“These abhorrent actions underscore that the Assad regime has lost legitimacy and that the global community must do more to enable a genuine political transition”, said the statement.

Thought it opposes Islamic State, the Nusra Front last month attacked rebels trained as part of a U.S.-led program to bolster insurgents viewed as moderate enough to fight the ultra-hardline group.

Before all 15 council members approved the text, Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the presidential statement “would be the first exclusively political document on the Syrian crisis adopted by consensus”.

On Wednesday, the Pentagon said U.S. jets now based at Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey had hit their first targets in Syria, which American officials cheered as a significant step forward.

Under the strategy, moderate Syrian rebels, trained by the US Army, will fight the militant group on the ground and help coordinate air strikes by the US coalition, launched from Turkish air bases.