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Assad-held Areas decorated with killings photos

Activists have published pictures of a long wall in Homs, near the water store in al-Zahra, the neighbourhood of Alawite majority, at the junction between Arman and East Cornish neighbourhoods. On that wall, pictures of hundreds of soldiers and members of National Defence Forces...

Syria Troops Launch Major Offensive In Aleppo

  Syrian troops have recaptured parts of a military base seized by rebels earlier this year in a fierce fighting near Aleppo international airport, activists say. Heavy fighting erupted in the early hours of Friday around Base 80 outside Syria’s main northern city....

Reuters: Palestinians lose more than most in Syrian exodus

Palestinians Mahmoud and Ahmed fled Syria last month for Egypt, where they paid smugglers to bring them to Europe. Once at sea, they were robbed at knifepoint and herded onto an overloaded boat that sank, pitching over 100 into the sea.  The brothers made it back to shore while others...

Fighting intensifies around Syrian capital

 Syrian air and land forces have pressed ahead with an intensified campaign against rebel-held pockets around Damascus, as Kurdish fighters in the country's north drove home advances against al-Qaeda-linked groups, monitoring agencies report. The Syrian Observatory...