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Moscow resumed direct passenger flights to and from the Syrian capital Damascus after six years. This is reported by the international Russian airport Sheremetyevo on its website.

Syrian state media report that the government army has intercepted Israeli missiles. That would have happened in the vicinity of the airport of the Syrian capital Damascus.

Together with ally Russia, Syria carried out heavy air raids on Saturday in the province of Idlib. This is considered the last large enclave still in the hands of insurgents against President Bashar al-Assad. The Observatory for Human Rights reported that at least four people were killed.

Several explosions have been heard at an air base near the Syrian capital Damascus. According to Syrian state media, there was an explosion in ammunition storage due to problems with electricity. They contradict that Israel has carried out an attack.

The political branch of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) once again consulted with the Syrian regime last week. The vice-president of the so-called Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) said that in the capital Damascus there was talk about decentralization and the constitution.

The Syrian government condemned the evacuation of aid workers from the Syrian civil protection movement White Helmets by Israel from Southwest Syria. The regime in Damascus calls the evacuation a 'criminal operation.'

Israel has again bombed Iranian targets in Syria. This is reported by Syrian state media on Sunday. The attackers would have attacked the Syrian air base of Tiyas, 140 kilometers northeast of Damascus, from the Jordanian airspace with their fighter planes. An airplane would have been hit and the rest would have been chased away by the anti-aircraft, according to the Syrian sources.

The Syrian opposition and Russian negotiators have started peace negotiations on the southwestern region of Syria, where a fierce battle last week has taken place. According to the rebels, the use of the talks to bring the area around Daraa back under the control of the Syrian government.

A Lebanese young man who himself is supporter of Brazil, was stabbed to death by a fan of Germany on Wednesday evening. This is reported by various local news sources, including Gulfnews.

Two Israeli missiles have been parked near the airport of Damascus. That reports the Syrian news agency SANA. No further details were given.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he plans to visit North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. That is what North Korean state media report. It may be the first meeting between Kim and another head of state in Pyongyang.

At least 30 Syrian soldiers and Iran-backed militias have been killed in an attack by Islamic State (IS) fighters at a military post. The attack was at the ancient city of Palmyra in the east of Syria.

Syrian forces have taken a former bulwark of IS jihadists on the southern edge of Damascus city center on Monday, according to Syrian state media. The government had previously rolled up a series of strongholds at Damascus. But on the south side of the capital was a stronghold in the hands of the Islamic State (IS). It concerns the neighborhoods al-Hajar al-Aswad and Mukhayam al-Yarmouk.

A group of Islamic State fighters was evacuated Sunday morning from the last rebellious stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus. That reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The rocket attack by Israel on an Iranian base in Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, certainly killed fourteen people. According to the British-based organization, eight Iranians are among the dead.

Israel has again carried out rocket attacks in Syria. The target was an army base south of the capital Damascus. State press agency SANA has shown images of the havoc caused by the missiles. This shows how the fire service tries to extinguish multiple fireplaces.

Inspectors of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are not yet going to Douma, a suburb of Damascus. They were going to investigate Wednesday there, but that was postponed because according to UN security officers, Tuesday was shot. It is not clear about what kind of shooting the security people spoke to.

Researchers from the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) entered the suburb of Douma near Damascus on Tuesday, reported Syrian state television.

The Syrian armed forces have begun to shoot an encircled stronghold of Islamic State (IS) just south of the center of Damascus. It is assumed that this heralds the recapture of the enclave of fighters of IS and of the al-Nusra front linked to al-Qaeda.

The Syrian anti-aircraft in the province of Homs came into action due to technical malfunctions on the night from Monday to Tuesday. Military sources contradicted earlier reports that at least three air bases, Shayrat, Dumayr and a base at Damascus, had been bombarded with missiles.

The Syrian Ministry of Defense said it intervened on Monday night after a rocket attack aimed at Shayrat Air Base near the city of Homs.

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad does not care about the attacks that three western countries have done on his country. He stays on the same course, Russian parliamentarians who were visiting Damascus and Assad reported this weekend. Assad was in a good mood and praised the Russian anti-aircraft, with which his army would have brought down the most rockets.

Only 28 percent of respondents in a British opinion poll support Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to attack Syria with missiles. Britain, the US and France fired more than a hundred missiles at targets in Syria during the night from Friday to Saturday. They state that there was an attack with poison gas a week earlier in Douma near Damascus and that the regime of President Assad should be punished with missiles there.

The Syrian army reports that all armed groups have left from East Ghouta, the former rebel enclave near Damascus. 'All terrorists have been removed from the city of Douma, their last stronghold in East Ghouta', reports the Syrian state press agency SANA on the authority of the army command.

Syrian government supporters have taken to the streets after the rocket attack on their land. Hundreds of people gathered in the capital Damascus. They held photos of the Syrian leader Assad, waved flags and chanted slogans.

The Syrian anti-theft aircraft intercepted 71 of the 103 missiles that fired western countries in the night from Friday to Saturday. This is what the Russian armed forces have admired for the thirty-year-old anti-Soviet anti-air defense from the Soviet Union that at a base in Dumayr, northeast of Damascus, all twelve onrushing missiles would have fired.

The West has lost all influence and credibility in the conflict in the Middle East and therefore only carried out a rocket attack on Syria under the leadership of the US. This is what Syrian President Assad said in a reaction to attacks on his country in the night from Friday to Saturday.

In Damascus, images have been distributed by President Assad who comes to work. Assad arrives with a suitcase at the presidential palace. The images are from Saturday, 'the day of resilience', so it is mentioned.

The Syrian air defense has shot 13 cruise missiles in the Damascus area, according to Syrian state television. The missiles would have been shot down near the place Al-Kiswah, just south of the Syrian capital.

America, England and France have attacked three targets in Syria dealing with the Syrian chemical weapons program, the US General Dunford has announced.