Experts on board a cargo ship transformed into a multi-million dollar chemical weapons destroyer said on Thursday they were ready to start working on Syria's stock of toxic arms in the middle of the Mediterranean as early as May. Now they just have to hope the weather holds and...

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  “I never imagined that our calls to get our freedom from captivity by Free Syrian Army   would be without impact and would not resonate the Syrian regime,” a captive officer from the Syrian Army said, who was detained by Liwa al-Twhid, rebel islamist group. The...

 After three years of war in Syria, one of the things we have learnt is that al-Qaeda’s followers don’t really want to live in the seventh century. Their favoured social medium is Twitter, and they often use the modern vernacular when they tweet. Here is what one jihadist wrote...