A Syrian photojournalist known for his picture of bikers on a badly damaged bridge was killed when an army rocket attack erupted while he was cycling, a colleague said Monday.   Murhaf al-Mohdi, who also went by the pseudonym Abo Shuja, had...

  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...

  Six weeks ago, a two-man delegation arrived in secret in Damascus: civilians from Aleppo who represented elements of the Free Syrian Army, the rebel group largely composed of fighters who deserted the regime’s army in the first year of the war. They came under a guarantee of...

This Lowy Institute Analysis examines the trajectory of the Syrian conflict in the wake of the Russian and US agreement to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons.  It argues that while that agreement, enshrined in Security Council Resolution 2118, may remove a pernicious class of weapons...