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Syrian rebels and the Syrian army near Damascus fighting each other, are about to arrange a cease-fire. Which has declared the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Wednesday.

Even though all eyes are on Paris since the attacks Friday, Thursday Lebanon was rocked by a double attack that certainly were 37 deaths. Without a hero Adel Termos had there been many more.

Although Israel the attack had not foreseen series Friday in Paris, the country has France can provide valuable information on the possible perpetrators. Israel holds IS militant groups in Syria and Iraq, a sharp eye. Israeli media reports said Sunday.

In Lebanon, six people have been arrested in connection with the bloody bombings near Beirut Thursday. This Saturday from a senior source heard by the security forces. When detainees involves five Syrians and a Palestinian.

Bashar al-Assad has failed to react thirteen hours after the bombings in Paris from Damascus condemning the events. These terrorist acts are similar to what his people into the underlying five years of violent civil war has made ​​, said the Syrian president Saturday by state media.

In two suicide attacks in a densely populated suburb of the Lebanese capital Beirut on Thursday, at least eight people dead and dozens wounded.

The Israeli air force has carried out a bombing at Damascus airport. This was reported by the Israeli Channel 2.

With three different plug incidents in the Israeli Jerusalem are at least three wounded and slain two attackers. Israeli media reports said Tuesday.

The Syrian regime earns money from the people themselves disappear. "Through a sinister black market to be exploited relatives who want to have information about the fate of their loved ones," Amnesty International wrote in a report published Thursday.

Or Bashar al-Assad will remain president of Syria is Russia " no issue of principle." " It is up to the Syrian people to decide the fate of the president," said the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry Tuesday in a radio interview. "We do not talk to us about whether Assad should go or stay. "

Activists accuse Syrian rebels of using caged prisoners as human shields. Insurgents would transfer inmates cars to the Ghouta area near the capital Damascus.

Islamic State Warriors (IS), the Syrian place Making, taken in the province of Homs. This is reported by the terror group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Sunday. IS is therefore still 20 kilometers away from the highway that connects capital Damascus with the city of Homs and other places in northern Syria.

At least 45 people have been killed by a rocket attack on a market in the Syrian city of Douma, near Damascus. Hundreds of people were injured, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Friday.

The Lebanese authorities at the international airport of Beirut two tons of drugs were found aboard a private jet. Five citizens of Saudi Arabia have been arrested, according to security sources.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to Russian media willing to write out early presidential elections. The condition is that the Syrian people support the idea of ​​early elections and that the country first " must be liberated from terrorism ".

The more than two years ago in Syria kidnapped Italian Jesuit Father Paolo Dall'Oglio according rebels still alive . The spiritual is in the hands of Islamic State (IS) , the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday .

With dozens of bombing targets in Syria, the Russian airforce terrorist organization Islamic State (IS), in his own words gave a big blow . "Russian air strikes have resulted in destruction of the bulk of ammunition , heavy vehicles and equipment IS" , claimed the Russian Defense Ministry Tuesday.

On the grounds of the Russian Embassy in Syria Tuesday detonated two grenades. A spokesman for the diplomatic mission in Damascus thus became one injured.

Syrian military forces in the northwest of the country began a major attack on jihadists and other rebels. The Russian Air Force supports the offensive from the air.