A bomb blast rocked Syrian state television headquarters in the heart of Damascus wounding several people on Monday just two days after the army said it had seized the last rebel-held area of the capi

The Syrian army now has all of the capital under its control, a brigadier general on Saturday told journalists visiting the neighbourhood of Tadamun, the scene of heavy fighting earlier in the day.

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Syria admitted on Monday it has chemical weapons and warned of using them if attacked, though not against its own civilians, as regime troops reclaimed most of Damascus after a week of heavy clashes.

Syrian defence minister General Daoud Rajha died in a suicide attack in Damascus on Wednesday, as raging battles across the capital upped the stakes ahead of a Security Council vote on the Syria crisis.

Syria's army blasted rebel strongholds in Damascus with mortars Sunday, sparking the 'most intense' fighting in the capital since the revolt erupted 16 months ago, a monitoring group said.

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Peace envoy Kofi Annan said on Friday Syria had 'flouted' Security Council resolutions with mass killings in Treimsa village, as UN chief Ban Ki-moon demanded that the Council act to stop the bloodshed.

Two bombs exploded outside the Palace of Justice in central Damascus on Thursday, state television reported, without giving any immediate word on any casualties.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday said his country was in state of war and ordered his new cabinet to crush the anti-regime uprising as Turkey vowed to retaliate the downing of one of its je

An attack on a pro-government television channel's offices near Damascus killed seven staff on Wednesday, state media said, a day after President Bashar al-Assad said Syria was in a ‘state of war.’

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Syria said it shot down a Turkish military plane that entered Syrian air space, and Turkey vowed to 'determinedly take necessary steps' in response.

It was the most clear and dramatic escalation in