When Hazem Attar fled the stricken Syrian city of Aleppo seven years ago, he could not have imagined his brutal journey would lead him to a World Cup football match.

Two suicide bombers attacks a police station in the Syrian capital Damascus, killing a number of civilians and policemen, state television says, citing the interior ministry.

Turkey says it has received the body of a Russian pilot killed after his plane was shot down on the Syrian border.