Move comes less than a week after regional leaders welcomed Bashar Assad back to the Arab League following decade of diplomatic isolation

Videos dating back to 2012-2013 show bodies transferred into mass graves in the southern province of Daraa

Deemed one of deadliest such operations, no group has yet claimed responsibility

More than 40,000 register to fight at Syrian recruitment centers as poverty and lack of jobs push soldiers to look for a better life; 'from Ukraine, I plan to go to Europe'

In tacit threat, the military warns Damascus that it will bear responsibility for any attacks that emanate from within its borders

Recapture of Saraqeb comes as Assad regime pushes to retake the last rebel-held province of Idlib; Turkey sending more troops to the area

In a reality once unthinkable, Assad's troops along Golan border are heeding commanders of the Iran-backed terror group, and helping it prepare for conflict with the Jewish state

Jihadists kill 35 pro-Damascus fighters in desert east of Homs province