(Los Angeles Times)- The guns have been silenced; that is the first change a returning visitor notices while driving around Syria’s capital. In years past, the booms of artillery, mortars and rockets exchanged between the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad and the rebels arrayed...

(The Daily Sabah)- Journalists from Western newspapers and TV stations, in addition to politicians and academics, have been invited to attend a pro-Assad regime conference held in Damascus, organized by the British Syrian Society. During a two-day workshop reportedly organized by Syrian leader...

(The New York Times)- The lime-green buses once ferried Syrians to school, work and dates at Damascus cafes. Now they pull up at moments of defeat, when rebel fighters and civilians, besieged and bombarded, give up their territory to government forces and board the vehicles en route to an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces on Monday broke into the central prison of the coastal city of Tartus, wounding dozens of inmates who revolted two days ago against death sentences, sources said. The prison uprising broke out in protest against the execution of political inmate. The...