Islamic State (IS) cells in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria threatened employees and workers of institutions linked to the Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria and warned them against carrying out work for the administration.
Black oil spills are spotted on the banks of the Euphrates River in Syria, near the oil smuggling points between the areas controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian government-held areas.
Aleppo province came under fire one time, while Idlib and Latakia provinces were shelled twice.
One of the trials will take place in the city of Mariupol.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that ousting Syria’s leader Bashar Assad is not Ankara’s aim.
At least 21 civilians including children were killed Friday in separate bombardments in the latest flare-up of violence along Syria’s northern border with Turkey.
The prospect of fence-mending with Damascus continues to excite Turkey’s political scene after Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu revealed last week that he had spoken briefly with his Syrian counterpart during an international gathering in Belgrade in October and stressed the need to reconcile Syria’s opposition and government.
Syria and Iraq announced today the formation of a new business council.
The Syrian government on Wednesday denied holding American nationals captive, including journalist Austin Tice who was abducted a decade ago in Damascus.
Two rockets landed near a US-led coalition base in eastern Syria on Monday night, marking the second reported attack on US forces in the country in one day.