About six months ago Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan disappeared in Damascus and was reportedly being held incommunicado by Assad's regime. He had been drawing for the Al-Fida (or Fedaa) newspaper in the city of Hama when he was grabbed. Now. he is about to be put on trial....

The Syrian sarcasm continues with this funny YOUTUBE video which imitates the defecting videos of Syrian army. Three young men announcing their will to establish the ''Free Turkish Army'' where they are repeating the same fake allegation of Assad's regime towards Syrian people and rebels.

  The UN refugee agency on Tuesday said it has been seeing small numbers of refugees arriving in eastern Lebanon after escaping from the embattled Syrian town of Al Qusayr, where heavy fighting flared up three weeks ago.   The refugees, mostly women and...

"I have no doubt that gas has been used. We must congratulate journos from Le Monde. The conclusion is clear. There was sarin gas. But can we trace the trace the origins of it? In the second case there's no doubt it was the regime that was responsible,"  France's foreign minister ...