( The Guardian )- In the quiet streets of Khan Sheikun this week, as people wept for and buried the dead from a sarin attack, they also braced for the sound of warplanes in the skies above them, and the next attack. On Saturday the planes came back, killing a woman and injuring one other...

( AFP )- Influential Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Saturday called on Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, also calling on Washington and Moscow to stop intervening in the conflict. The young Najaf-based Shiite cleric condemned the killing of 87 people, including 31 children, in a...

( AFP )- At least 15 civilians, including four children, were killed in a suspected U.S.-led coalition airstrike Saturday near ISIS' Syrian bastion Raqqa, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 17 people were injured in the strike on Heneyda, and that the...

( The Guardian )- Is regime change in Syria back on the US agenda? For most of Syria’s six-year civil war the US has been pushing for the departure of Bashar al-Assad, even if former president Barack Obama was unwilling to use military options to remove him. Donald Trump had conspicuously...