Syrian army continued fierce clashes with the militant groups despite the western threats, and targeted the terrorists mainly in Damascus countryside.

Syrian army continued fierce clashes with the militant groups despite the western threats, and targeted the terrorists mainly in Damascus countryside.

The Syrian military regained wide areas in Jubar and struck the militant groups in the western and the eastern Goutas.

Units of the armed forces also restored security and stability to Deir Salman village in the eastern Ghouta in Damascus Countryside after destroying the latest terrorists' dens and gatherings in the village, according to the Syrian news agency (SANA).

The militant groups, in response, targeted the civilians in the capital and detonated a car bomb, killing four people in Sumareyya.

In Homs, the Syrian army regained control over the southern farms of Tadmur as the militants took the houses as a shield.

In Hasakah countryside, the militant groups targeted Imam Ali mosque, according to local sources.

A group of Islamist militants from Russia's volatile North Caucasus region fighting in Syria have split with a major al Qaeda-linked rebel unit to form an independent battalion, according to a video posted online.     

A group calling itself "Mujahideen of the Caucasus in the Levant" announced its decision to split from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in a video posted on YouTube on Sept.

"We are leaving the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, and our battalion is independent," one of the fighters said in Russian, as another fighter translated into Arabic.