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Three car bombs target Damascus, 20 killed
Officials said the bombers had been prevented from reaching their intended targets, otherwise the casualty toll would have been higher.
ICRC spokeswoman says according to available information, the US attack on Syrian military infrastructure amounts to an international armed conflict.
Investigators have said for the first time that they suspect President Bashar al-Assad and his brother are responsible for the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict.
16,000 people have been displaced in Syria's Aleppo by intense attacks on the rebel-held eastern part of the city.
The army and its allies took control on Saturday of the large Hanano housing district, on the northeast frontline of the besieged eastern part of Aleppo.
The Syrian military source said the pro-government forces had completely retaken the al-Minian district.
President Vladimir Putin had ordered the pause in fighting to avoid senseless victims.
The offer of amnesty follows two weeks of the heaviest bombardment of the five-and-a-half-year civil war.
The UN Security Council is due to discuss a report by the United Nations and the watchdog group.
Syrian state television showed scores of mostly women gathered in a government-controlled area of the city.
It's understood the militants won back three villages south of the besieged city in a surprise assault.
Over 200,000 people have so far been killed in the civil war which began in March 2011.
The Hazzm movement was once central to a covert CIA operation to arm Syrian rebels.
The US said in September it had informed the Syrian ambassador to the UN before the first strikes.
President Bashar al-Assad has secured a landslide victory of 88.7 percent of votes cast in the election.
Officials said the election was a sign Assad was unwilling to seek a political solution to the conflict.
The evacuees, mainly women, children and old men, were brought out by the UN and Syrian Red Crescent.
Human Rights Watch said scores of people after a helicopter dropped 'barrel bombs'.
An Arab League draft communiqué called on the Syrian opposition to attend the conference.