The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in southern Syria.

A war monitoring group says the death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has risen to more than 1,000, including nearly 750 civilians, making it one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence since Syria’s conflict began 14 years ago.

Gunmen have ambushed a Syrian police patrol in a coastal town leaving at least 13 security members dead and many wounded, a war monitor said.

Insurgents have breached Syria’s largest city and clashed with government forces for the first time since 2016.

The U.S. military said an airstrike in Syria in May 2023 that was targeting an al-Qaida leader killed an innocent civilian instead.

The Syrian military says an Israeli airstrike on a Damascus suburb has killed and wounded several people.

Two members of Iraqi militia groups have told The Associated Press that overnight airstrikes on eastern Syria killed six Iran-backed militants near a strategic border crossing with Iraq.

Reports say Islamic State militants have killed 26 people who were foraging for wild truffles in Syria’s Hama region.

Syrian opposition activists say Iran-backed fighters are on alert in eastern Syria, a day after U.S. forces launched retaliatory airstrikes on sites in the war-torn country.

Turkey's state-run news agency says Turkish forces have killed the alleged planner of a deadly Istanbul street bombing, in an operation in northern Syria.

American forces have conducted three raids in eastern Syria and arrested six Islamic State groups militants.

A Syrian opposition war monitor and a local officials say the beheaded bodies of two Egyptian girls were found in a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the Islamic State group.

A Syrian opposition war monitor and a paramedic group say a rocket attack on a crowded market in a town held by Turkey-backed opposition fighters killed 15 people and wounded dozens.

People attend funeral of fighters killed in an airstrike in the town of Idlib, Syria, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Youssef Hammoud, a spokesman for the Syrian opposition, said the airstrike targeted a military training camp for Faylaq al-Sham in Idlib. Turkey firmly backs Azerbaijan in that country's conflict with Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, sending it weapons and — reportedly — deploying allied Syrian fighters there. Turkey and Russia also back rival sides in Libya, where they have sent Syrian and Russian fighters as proxies. Syrian opposition fighters said it was part of Turkey's redeployment of its forces in the shrinking enclave.