Approximately forty people were killed by multiple suicide attacks in and near As-Suwayda in the south of Syria. There were also dozens of injured. That is what Syrian health officials and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to get rid of Iranian involvement in the fight in Syria. According to Israeli TV, this is his response to the Russian proposal to ensure that pro-Iranian army units in Syria remain at least 100 kilometers away from the demilitarized border zone with Israel on the Golan Heights.
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.'
Approximately eight hundred members of the Syrian civil protection movement White Helmets and their families were evacuated to Israel via Israel on Sunday. The White Helmets come from southwest Syria, where a government offensive supported by Russia is going on.
The inhabitants of two besieged cities in the northwestern province of Idlib in Syria have been evacuated. According to a Syrian television channel, all buses with inhabitants and fighters have left the villages al-Foua and Kefraya Thursday morning and there are no more civilians. The Shiite villages are besieged by Sunni rebels fighting against President Bashar al-Assad.
Russian President Putin has arrived in Helsinki with some delay for the first US-Russian summit of him and his counterpart Donald Trump in 2017.
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin meet for a summit in the Finnish capital of Helsinki on Monday.
A British IS-trailer calling for an attack on Prince George has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The 32-year-old Husnain Rashid must spend at least 25 years behind the bars before he qualifies for release, Sky News.
An air strike has cost the lives of dozens of people in eastern Syria. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights talks about 54 deaths, including 28 civilians.
Russia and Israel have signed a deal about the conflict in Israel. According to diplomatic sources, Russia is doing everything to keep Iran's presence in Syria away from the border with Israel, which in turn will not intervene if the Syrian regime regains control in southern Syria.
The Israeli forces have brought down a drone that approached from Syria. The army says it has shot the unmanned aircraft out of the sky with a Patriot anti-aircraft missile. The authorities warned residents by letting sirens roar at the occupied Golan Heights and at the Jordanian border.
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.
Syrian rebels have reached an agreement on a truce and a phased surrender after a fierce battle on the border with Jordan.
For the first time in four days, Russia has carried out air operations in southwestern Syria. That reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Shortly before, a Syrian rebel leader reported that negotiations with Russian officers about ending the fighting in the south had failed.
Hudayfah al-Badri, a son of the ideological leader of the Sunni extremists of Islamic State (IS) Abu Bakr al-Baghadi, was killed according to a news channel from IS. 'Al-Badri, the son of the caliph' was killed in fighting in the Syrian city of Homs in the power plant with the alawites and the Russians, according to the report.
The 3-year-old girl who was stabbed at her own birthday party by a local resident has succumbed to her injuries, reports ABC. At that party in the American town Boise (Idaho), the 30-year-old man put down a total of six children and three adults. Three victims are still fighting in the hospital for their lives.
The Israeli army conducted extra tanks and artillery shots to the border with Syria, where the Syrian regime is engaged in a major offensive against the rebels. Israel is determined to maintain its red line- not pro-Iranian militias at the border- and has conveyed that warning via America and Russia.
The Israeli army is sending extra troops to the Golan Heights, because there is heavy fighting between the Syrian army and insurgents across the border in Syria. The army said that the division on the Golan plateau was reinforced with armored troops and artillery units, but did not mention numbers.
The Jordanian army has started distributing aid supplies to thousands of Syrians who have camped close to the border.
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.
US President Donald Trump said he will discuss Russian interference with the US election at the summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin next month.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump will talk in detail about Syria at their summit in July. That is what a Kremlin spokesperson said.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has urged the immediate execution of all terrorists sentenced to death, including foreigners and women, according to the media. It involves more than 300 people.
The summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is on July 16 in the Finnish capital Helsinki. The Kremlin announced that Thursday. The White House soon followed with the same announcement.
The organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague gets more powers to denounce attacks with banned toxic substances and to designate the perpetrators. Member States have adopted a British proposal to that effect at a special meeting.
Two Israeli missiles have been parked near the airport of Damascus. That reports the Syrian news agency SANA. No further details were given.
Syrian rebels in south-west Syria do not have to rely on US military support in their fight against the Syrian army that is trying to regain ground with the help of Russia. This is evidenced by a message that the US military has issued to leaders of the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres demands a direct end to military action in the Daraa region in south-western Syria. That is what Gautes spokesperson said on Friday. Since the start of the offensive, dozens of people have already been killed.
Kurdish Syrians from the YPG militia will start from July 4 with the departure from Manbij in the north of Syria. The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu declared Thursday. The withdrawal takes place according to a plan that Turkey and the US have made.
European countries still do not cooperate enough to reduce the risks of biological, chemical or nuclear disasters outside of Europe. Measures are paying off, but they are not yet sufficiently focused on reducing the risks, according to the European Court of Auditors in a report.
