Experts suggest Moscow is conducting the harassing attacks to support Iran's goal of ousting US forces from Syria, easing its ability to provide lethal aid to Hezbollah

Analysts suggest Damascus's former allies have recognized that 12 years of shutting Assad out had little practical effect on conflict

Rifaat Assad convicted of conspiracy to launder public money, tax fraud; law may enable return of money to Syrian public

BASMA is the largest association within the country offering free cancer diagnoses and treatment after conflict devastated the health care system

According to figures compiled by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 1,505 of the casualties were civilians and among those 360 were children

Minister says arrival numbers are rising again after period of relative calm following decade of civil war

Attack on Hamza Division comes amid increasing tensions between Assad's forces and insurgent groups who still have a stronghold in parts of the country

Probe by global watchdog concludes Assad's air force used the chlorine in strike on town of Saraqib; Syria continues to deny use of chemical weapons

Unable to return home, activists from Daraa who set aside their lives to join marches in the streets continue to support a cause that they hope can still prevail

Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh stand accused of belonging to a cell blamed for the jailing, torture and murder of Western hostages in Syria