Wearing chemical suits and gasmasks, Syrian doctors rush to a house where white smoke wafts over a group of people choking and coughing, some calling out for help. It is a training exercise but the scenario is all too real for many of the doctors, who treated victims of a chemical attack...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 25 regime troops were killed and 3 more were taken hostage when ISIS launched surprise attack on regime bastion near a crossing border with Iraq on Thursday, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. 50 more soldiers were also wounded in the ISIS attack on Wadi al-Waer area...

A Spanish court on Friday dropped a criminal complaint brought against members of the Syrian security and intelligence forces by a woman seeking justice for her brother, ruling it lacked jurisdiction over the case. The complaint was raised by a Spaniard who said her brother was arrested,...

( The Washington Post )- What did the CIA’s covert assistance program for Syrian rebels accomplish? Bizarrely, the biggest consequence may be that it helped trigger the Russian military intervention in 2015 that rescued President Bashar al-Assad — achieving the opposite of what the program...