Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad are expected to meet with each other for the first time after over 10 years at the Yayladagi-Kasab border gate.

The Italian government has resumed its diplomatic relations with Syria by appointing an ambassador to the Arab country as more European countries race to amend their ties with Damascus after a decade-long hiatus.

Amid rising anti-US sentiments over Washington’s support for the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, a salvo of missiles has targeted a military base in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.

Putin and Assad meet in Moscow to discuss regional issues and bilateral ties.

The US military has reportedly dispatched a military convoy carrying short-range Avenger air defense systems from Iraq to eastern Syria.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said the children were killed “in an enemy raid that targeted farmland in the village of Umm al-Tut.”

President Bashar al-Assad says Syria is positive about any Turkey initiative.

Syrians are heading to the polls to choose their representatives to the parliament in the fourth election of the legislative body since the 2011 conflict broke out.

Syrian Foreign Ministry says potential rapprochement and restoration of diplomatic relations between Damascus and Ankara depends on Turkey withdrawing its troops from the Arab nation’s territory.

A Syrian soldier has been killed and three others were wounded when Israeli aircraft carried out a strike against military installations and a residential building in the capital Damascus.