Rebels posted photo online showed 3 men slaughtering a lion in the besieged Ghouta suburbs, east Damascus; they  try to 'm ake a virtue of necessity' , activists said. Zaman Alwasl source said the old lion came from the embattled Douma Zoo in Damascus countryside....

Three people were killed Tuesday in Syria's capital Damascus in renewed mortar attacks that targeted two districts of the capital. The mortars landed at the Baghdad Street in the northern district of Barzeh, Xinhua reported citing the state-run SANA news agency. It gave no further...

General Commission of the Syrian Revolution revealed more details over media-activists massacre  last Sunday when four  journalists  have been killed near Damascus.  The prominent war reporter Mohamed al-Saeed and his colleagues have been killed...

Miscalculations by the Syrian regime, opposition groups and U.S. government left them all unprepared for the Aug. 21 gas attack As Syrian troops battled rebel forces in the Damascus suburbs Aug. 18, U.S. eavesdropping equipment began picking up ominous signals. A special Syrian...