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The evacuation of the sick and wounded from the besieged Syrian East Ghouta started Wednesday morning, the Red Cross announced.

Turkey wants to evacuate around 500 people together with Russia from the besieged Syrian district of East Ghouta near the capital Damascus. That is what the Turkish president Recep Erdogan said on Sunday.

At least nineteen civilians were killed and 25 others were injured by an air attack of Syrian and Russian aircraft on the village of But Shureen.

Israel has shot missiles on a military complex near Damascus, according to Syrian state media. The Syrian anti-aircraft organization would have intercepted three missiles.

Israel has attacked an Iranian base under construction not far from the Syrian capital Damascus with fighter planes. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported this Saturday on the basis of pro-government media in Syria.

At least 23 people were killed by an attack by Syrian government troops against a stronghold of rebels. The attack was carried out on Sunday in the vicinity of the capital Damascus.

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The US-supported Syrian Democratic Armed Forces (SDF) have received one of the largest oil fields in Syria. Warriors from the SDF revealed that they had been given control over the al-Omar oil field in the eastern province of Deir El-Zor, by a successful Islamic State Offensive.

The Israeli Air Force has attacked Syrian Air Force Shield. That happened according to the Israeli forces after military aircraft were shot while they were busy on a flight of Lebanon over Lebanon.

Clearly coordinated attacks in the Syrian capital of Damascus certainly killed eleven people on Monday, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The Russian forces have built a bridge over the Euphrates east of the city of Deir al-Zor for the Syrian President Assad troops. The Russian television reported this Tuesday and showed images of the bridge over which military vehicles crossed.

Buses with IS warriors evacuated from an area near the Lebanese border have reached Deir al-Zor on Wednesday in eastern Syria. The evacuation took place after the terrorist organization had released a Hizbollah prisoner. That confirmed a Commander of the Lebanese militia who fought with the Assyrian Syrian army.

Israel fears Iran will establish multiple army bases in neighboring Syria. Damascus and Tehran are about to make an agreement there, Israeli Minister Yisrael Katz (Information) said at a security conference.

The Syrian army has recast a strategic oilfield on Islamic state. The Teym field near the eastern town of Deir al-Zor was taken on Saturday.

Syria does not recognize in a UN report in which it is held responsible for a deadly attack with chemical weapons in April. The government of President Bashar al-Assad claims not to have used such weapons, nor is it going to be.

Israeli fighter aircraft attacked the west of the Syrian city of Hama on Thursday. According to the Syrian army, two people were killed and damage to military installations was done. An Israeli army spokeswoman had no comments on the message.

A convoy with hundreds of IS warriors and their families is reversed after air attacks. The buses are driven by the highest US general in the region by areas owned by the Syrian government.

World coalition forces against IS have bombed a road and a bridge in Syria to arrest a convoy with IS warriors and their families. The vehicles were on their way to Syrian territories that were in the hands of the terrorist organization.

A Syrian refugee has been found guilty by a German court of an attempt to reveal Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization. The 39-year-old hairdresser, once fled to Germany from the Syrian capital of Damascus, was sentenced to a two-year sentence by a court in the city of Saarbrücken.

Seven members of the Syrian rescue organization White Helmets were shot by unknowns in the city of Sarmin in the northwest of the country on Saturday.

Animal wardors have freed several unmarried animals, including lions and tigers, from a zoo near the Syrian city of Aleppo. The animals are extensively depleted and dehydrated and have met the war in the city at night.

Russia has entered into an agreement for the escalation of the conflict with rebels on the eastern shore of the Syrian capital of Damascus. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday that the agreement in Cairo was reached with Egypt as a mediator.

On a car bomb attack in a busy district in the Syrian capital of Damascus, Sunday is definitely twenty dead and many dozens injured. That made the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs known.

A car bomb attack caused several deaths in the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday morning. The vehicle exploded on Tahrir Square in the center of the city.

The Syrian government rejects a report on the use of poison gas in April. It is not credible according to Damascus because it is based on 'witnesses of terrorists who are in Turkey.' Turkey is a major pillars of radical Sunni rebels fighting the government in Damascus.

Nearly half a million Syrians killed for war violence returned home this year. The vast majority, 440,000 people, remained in Syria itself. More than 31,000 people returned from neighboring countries. These figures brought the UNHCR, UN Refugee Organization, out on Friday.

Thirty-three citizens were killed early in the morning by an air strike in a village in eastern Syria. Also, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, tens of people were injured in the bombing in al-Dablan, a place owned by Islamic State.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has prayed in a mosque in the city of Hama on Sunday, on behalf of Eid al-Fitr, the end of the fasting month, far from the capital. Syrian state media showed the president with clergy, parliamentarians and civilians in the al-Nouri Mosque in Hama, more than 180 kilometers north of Damascus.

The Syrian authorities have said that 672 prisoners were released. The detained detainees promised not to take any further actions that could harm the country's 'security or stability', said Hisham al-Shaar, Minister of Justice, according to SANA.