Map: Where is Syria and how are its neighbours involved ... including on the capital, Damascus, Aleppo and Hama. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claims it has destroyed around 80% of the Assad ...

Will Syria be different? If you have a mental map of the Middle East, rip it up. The overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by a coalition of Islamist fighters changes everything.

Syrian authorities announced the capture of a senior military official believed to have been involved in abuses at the notorious Sednaya prison in the Damascus countryside ... it were satellite images ...