January 13, 2015 Israeli warplanes attack target inside Syria, official says Israeli warplanes attacked a shipment of Russian missiles inside a Syrian government stronghold, officials said Thursday, a development that threatened to add another volatile layer to regional tensions from the Syrian civil war.
January 13, 2015 Nursa Front members deny Syrian reports of Al Qaeda-linked group leader's death Syrian state-run TV reported Friday that the leader of a powerful Al Qaeda-linked rebel group has been killed -- a claim that if confirmed would be a huge blow to fighters trying to topple President Bashar Assad. At least one rebel commander denied the report.
January 13, 2015 Bomb found inside confessional box at Syrian church, Christian leader says A leading Christian figure in Syria says a remote-controlled bomb was found inside the confessional box of a church in a rebel-held town.
January 13, 2015 Syrian chemical weapons inspectors destroyed 'critical equipment' at six sites, agency says International inspectors have visited 11 sites linked to Syria's chemical weapons program and destroyed "critical equipment" at six, the agency overseeing the elimination of the country's stockpile said Wednesday.
January 13, 2015 Second team of chemical weapons inspectors to head into Syria The chief of the global chemical weapons watchdog said Tuesday the organization is sending a second team of inspectors to Syria to expand its high-stakes, high-risk mission to rid Syria of its poison gas stockpile.
January 13, 2015 Agreement ends shelling of Syrian village Syrian government forces reached an agreement Saturday with local officials of a vulnerable Sunni village in a region dominated by President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect to end hours of deadly shelling in exchange for the surrender of dozens of opposition fighters, an activist group said.
January 13, 2015 Syria's Assad vows to comply with UN resolution on chemical weapons removal Syria's president vowed Sunday to abide by the U.N. resolution calling for the country's chemical weapons stockpile to be destroyed.
January 13, 2015 Russia says it's working on plan for Syrian weapons French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announced Tuesday that his country would propose a new resolution in the United Nations Security Council that would set out conditions for Syria to place its chemical weapons under international control and accept that they would be dismantled.
January 13, 2015 View from Damascus: Syrian state media trumpets 'historic American retreat' A Syrian state-run newspaper on Sunday called President Barack Obama's decision to seek congressional approval before taking military action against Syria "the start of the historic American retreat."
January 8, 2015 UN: 45 Fijian peacekeepers freed in Syria Al Qaeda-linked Syrian militants on Thursday released all 45 Fijian peacekeepers they had held captive for two weeks, bringing an end to a crisis that ensnared the U.N. monitoring force in the chaos of Syria's civil war.
