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Armed opposition groups took control of a total of 70 settlements in Aleppo and Idlib provinces.

Over the past seven weeks, 300,000 children have fled the escalating conflict from Lebanon to Syria, Save the Children reports. Most of the children have set out alone, separated from their parents or families, and are at risk of the approaching winter, violence, food shortages and disease.

Israel's war against the Lebanese "Hezbollah" gives rise to views about the possibility that Syria will soon be drawn into this conflict. Its geographical proximity to Lebanon may cause the US-backed Jewish state to launch a stronger attack on the Levant.

In Syria's oil-rich Deir ez-Zor region, local tribes united with Bashar Assad's forces to drive out the Kurds under US protection. Deir ez-Zor is the only oil and gas-producing region in Syria that has been controlled by Kurdish groups for nearly 10 years and is home to more than 20 US military bases.

Israeli warplanes fired a missile at the Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital. As a result, five people - diplomats and military advisers, including the general of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, Mohammad Reza Zahidi, were killed. The building was completely destroyed.

A 24-year-old Uzbek man, who was seriously injured fighting with terrorists in Syria, was deported to Uzbekistan in February. He was tried and imprisoned for 6 years.

It has been 13 years since the start of the civil war in Syria. During this period, more than 306 thousand Syrians died, more than 5 million people sought refuge in neighboring countries, and 7 million people became internal refugees. Currently, 16.7 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.

In response to the attack on its base, the US launched airstrikes against targets in Iraq and Syria belonging to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and its affiliated paramilitary groups.

On Friday morning, an Israeli airstrike south of Damascus killed three people, including Iranian Revolutionary Guard adviser Saeed Alidadi.