Not every report to emerge from Syria is bad news for Bashar al-Assad. Yes, the world's jihadists may be  flying  from Accrington to Aleppo to fillet his soldiers with bullets. But it turns out Bashar has violent friends in far-off places, too. Since the conflict began in 2011,...

Experts from the United Nations arrived in Syria on Tuesday to begin the process of verifying and eliminating the regime’s chemical weapons stockpile. The experts arrived in a convoy of about 20 U.N.  vehicles, according to Reuters news agency. The Hague-based Organization for...

    Syrian opposition started printing a revised Syrian curriculum in Istanbul, where all information related to the Assad regime has been omitted. The revised books will be distributed to displaced Syrian students in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Qatar as well as...

  Free Syrian Army targeted Bashar al-Assad's Palaces in Damascus by mortar rounds, rebel leader said . Early today, footage, by the military council of Damascus and its suburbs, circulated in the Internet showed smoke rising in the People's Palace, the main...