New dark age

Syrian opposition activists accused president Bashar al-Assad's forces of a new poison gas attack in the capital Damascus today , posting footage of four men being treated by medics. They said the chemical attack, the fourth the opposition has ...

PRESIDENT Bashar Assad should be the happiest on earth now that global attention has turned from Syria. Assad should be happy that Kiev is the new Damascus and Crimea is now Homs. The Syrian president can at least drop his made-in-Russia bombs on ...

With the help of its allies, the Syrian Army has regained critical territory from armed rebels. But talk of victory obscures the fact that parts of the country may be irretrievable. By Nicholas Blanford posted April 16, 2014 at 10:19 am EDT A slew ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh has said that the 2013 sarin gas attack in Damascus was carried out by jihadi rebels. He is possibly right Why would anyone believe Seymour Hersh? True, he's the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative ...

Neither President Assad nor his father ever had an electoral challenger until this year. But any opposition candidate is likely to be a strawman put up to give the vote legitimacy. Everywhere you look in central Damascus, you see President Bashar ...

Anything else would require strong external pressures on the regime to make serious concessions, less likely now than ever because of the breakdown in entente between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine. That crisis has given the Russian President ...

Syria 's President Bashar al Assad has said the civil war that has torn the country apart and cost 150,000 lives is turning in his favour. The Syrian army has made a series of gains in recent months against opposition strongholds near the ...

In a rare public appearance, Syrian President Bashar al Assad has visited displaced civilians in a front-line suburb of the country's capital, state television reported. The visit to a shelter for displaced people in Adra, northeast of Damascus, ...

With the eyes of the world on Ukraine, an escalated campaign of barrel bombings by the regime of Bashar al-Assad has led to the indiscriminate killing of men, women and children in Syria. Please wait while this video loads. If it doesn't load after ...