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Islam Army attacks Assad army ceremony near Damascus

  Islam Army, key rebels group, said in statement Tuesday 2 female officers have been killed and 15 others have been wounded by rebels' artillery shelling on the War College, near Damascus, during the graduation ceremony of new female officers. The Syrian conflict erupted in...

Assad army kills 4 people after shelling mosque in Homs

   Four people have been killed and  dozens wounded by Assad army shelling on al-Rawdha mosque in al-Waer neighborhood, during 'Dusk' prayer (al-Maghreb), l ocal activists in the city of Homs said . The embattled neighborhood has been living under siege...

US sends armored cars to arms Inspectors in Syria

The U.S. has given 10 armored vehicles to the United Nations to help support efforts to verify and destroy Syria's chemical weapons. The United States spent $1.55 million from the State Department's Nonproliferation and Disarmament Fund to pay for the armored vehicles, which were...

Without chemical arms, Syrian weaponry still fearsome

On Sunday, September 29, President Bashar al-Assad declared to the world, via an interview on Italian television, his resolve to clear Syria  of chemical weapons - accepting a Russian-brokered deal to avert punitive U.S. action. That same morning his forces appear to have dropped...