immune to the pressure of the captive families and international calls for a cease firing. gaza carrie johnston de la, the top stories now in houses. here. syria is president bashar assad is confronting . the biggest challenge is to his route in years, in just a few days, all positions sciences have made significant gains. now they say they've reached another important milestone on the way to the capital damascus. the fonts us say they've entered him on that to government troops of withdrawal from the positions. the government rejected those claims and says its troops are ready to repel any attack. so is present, has filed to defeats with equal the terrace on this supports. as i saw, it has been speaking to the data as of the united r m, or it's an rock. so they consolidate reports from high tide. that's a key is border with syria on presidents with games on the 4th day of what syria's all position groups are calling a patient. turns the aggression to in a position fighters enter tom i just the day after breaking through a level watching the return to these key cities for the 1st time in here, this s

waiting 1st motion for the same it's light and here and you just can't be what the put on carry johnston in de la, the top stores now. and alex is here. there's an international push for smooth political transition in syria and regional stability of the assad, but she was toppled by opposition forces earlier this week. but you are a secretary of state antony blinking isn't a kid. but he met to personally reject tab at one with the talks focused on stability and syria. us is one of the main back cause of the kurdish lead soon. democratic forces, which include considered to be a terrorist group that have been convincing jordan, where he met to king of the we're back in the region at a time of both real promise, but also farrell for syria and for its neighbors. and the focus of our work here is to coordinate across the region to support the syrian people as they transition away from the sides. brutal dictatorship, family members of thousands of missing syrians are searching for the relative police have been held in prisons run by the subdivision sullivan, looking through i d 's that have been scatte