Riyadh, Ankara, Doha behind intense fighting in eastern Damascus: Syria

The ministry, in two separate letters addressed to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and rotating President of the United Nations Security Council Matthew Rycroft, called on the Security Council to assume its responsibilities and combat terrorism and criminal acts being perpetrated by al-Nusra Front and other terror groups.

The two identical letters also read that such attacks are simply aimed at undermining the UN-sponsored Syria peace talks in the Swiss city of Geneva.

Earlier on Thursday, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that government troops had killed more than 157 terrorists, among them foreign nationals, and wounded hundreds of others during the ongoing fighting in the eastern Damascus district of Jobar.

Syrian army soldiers also destroyed three explosive-laden vehicles, three tanks, four armored vehicles, five mortar launchers, three cannons and 15 machine gun-equipped vehicles. They killed seven bombers before targeting military posts in Jobar.