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The coalition led by the United States against Islamic State (IS) has bombed hospitals in northwest Syria. The Russian Air Force has nothing to do with it.

Terror movement Islamic State carried out an attack with mustard gas last year at Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq. It has a source said at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Monday.

Russia sent a warship from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. The cruise missile cruiser equipped Seljoni Dol goes to the coast of Syria anchor and 'participation in hostilities is not excluded,' said a military spokesman Saturday against the news agency RIA Novosti.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's own words retake the country, but that may take a long time. Assad said this to the French news agency AFP.

On a busy market in the Syrian capital Damascus on Tuesday detonated a car bomb. In addition, deaths and injuries, the Syrian television reported without citing figures.

In Syrian prisons go so many prisoners dead, that there seems to extermination. This pointed a committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday in Geneva. Even in places where rebels detain people, everyday people are tortured and killed.

The United Arab Emirates say they are prepared to send ground troops to Syria as part of an international coalition against Islamic State (IS).

The mother of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Anisa Makhlouf, is at the age of 86 deceased in Damascus, Syrian state media reported Saturday.

Syrian government forces on Friday captured the southern city Ataman. That report both Hezbollah's al-Manar news channel as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Syrian Civil War beats with the help of activists on the ground.

Israeli police on Wednesday shot dead three Palestinians who attacked a checkpoint in Jerusalem. The three had guns, knives and explosives with him, police said.

The death toll from assassinations of Sunday in the Syrian capital Damascus has risen to more than seventy. This was reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Monday.

By two bombings in the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday least thirty people were killed and forty others injured. That the Syrian Interior Ministry announced.

The Syrian army on Monday after fierce fighting, the Sheikh Maskin strategic town in the province of Deraa recaptured from rebels. Thus the army has the important routes for supplies of the capital Damascus secured to the south.

An envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad late last year asked to leave. Assad explained that the anger aside. That the Financial Times Friday, after talks with two senior employees of Western intelligence.

The United States has all 26 countries participating in the coalition against terror group Islamic State (ISIS) called to carry summit soon in Brussels. Ministers of Defense Ashton Carter wants his counterparts consult on,, further contributions to the fight, '' he said Wednesday after a meeting on the same subject in Paris.

Extremists Islamic State have in the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor alongside dozens of enemy soldiers they had seized, also executed their relatives. The drama took place in the district Begayliya, which is actually still in the hands of government forces.

Auxiliaries of the Red Cross and the United Nations on Monday reached the Syrian city Madaya. Madaya is in the hands of the rebels and is surrounded by government forces, leaving 40,000 people in the outside world are closed. Images of starving villagers engaged in recent weeks over the world. In centers of MSF deceased since December 1, 23 people due to hunger.

Help is on the way to the besieged and starving place Madaya, nearly 40 kilometers northwest of Damascus.

The Syrian government is ready to participate in peace talks in Geneva on January 25, but would like to know which representatives of the opposition to come. That the government Saturday to allow UN envoy Staffan de Mistura know.

A jihadist from the Islamic State Movement (ISIS) has publicly executed because his own mother who had asked him to turn back the ISIS. This reported Friday observers of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) which usually has reliable information.

The evacuation of Islamic fighters and their families from an area in the south of the capital Damascus has been averted. This was reported by a Lebanese TV station of the group Hezbollah.

The Syrian government allows Muslim fighters in 2000 and 1500 by their families in the short term from an area in the south of the capital Damascus leave. The evacuation by bus is the result of an agreement between the government and the fighters of the Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front.

The well-known Syrian rebel commander Zahran Aloush was killed in an airstrike on his secret headquarters. It announced two sources of the rebels Friday.

Family of fighters from Islamic State (ISIS) and wounded jihadists be evacuated according to a UN plan in suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus. They are given free rein and can later from the southern districts Yarmouk and Al-Hajar al-Aswad go to Raqqa. The observers reported a Syrian human rights organization Thursday.

'Death to Israel,' chanted Monday thousands of supporters of the Lebanese group Hezbollah during the funeral of the prominent commander Samir Qantar. The Lebanese came last weekend killed when the house where he was staying in the Syrian capital Damascus with missiles was destroyed.

Three rockets were fired on Sunday in northern Israel from Lebanon smashed. No one was injured. The rocket attack follows according to the newspaper Haaretz did not happen to the death of a leading member of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, Samir Kuntar, in an Israeli air raid near the Syrian capital Damascus. Israel on Sunday evening with artillery bombarded targets in Lebanon in retaliation for the three rockets.

The German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) has provided shelter for months on the 20-year-old Syrian refugee Karim. She also helped him with his asylum request, finding a training and integration. Karim has enriched our lives, said the minister to Bild am Sonntag .

The militant activist Samir Qantar has been killed by an attack on a residential building in the Syrian capital Damascus. This was reported by the Lebanese Islamic movement Hezbollah, which accused Israel of firing.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has visited an old church on the frontline in the capital Damascus, where the army is engaged in heavy fighting with rebels.

At least 28 people Sunday were killed in air raids on suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus. Among the dead are at least two children and a school principal.