Recruits attend a class to be trained as part of a police battalion under the Free Syrian Army's 'Farouq Omar Brigade' at their headquarters in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus September 11, 2013.

Recruits attend a class to be trained as part of a police battalion under the Free Syrian Army's 'Farouq Omar Brigade' at their headquarters in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus September 11, 2013.
Al-Qaeda-linked group, the 'State of Iraq and al-Sham' has launched armed attacks against rebels in al Raqqa and Aleppo, in a statement circulated by social media the ISIS accused Al-Farouk battalion and other brigades of the Free Syrian Army by treason and cooperation with Assad...
Syria will start handing over information on its chemical weapons to international groups a month after it signs the Chemical Weapons Convention, President Bashar Assad has told a Russian TV channel. Damascus has agreed to a Russia proposal to put its chemical weapons stockpiles under...