President Bashar Al Assad
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Missile strikes on Syria kill 26, mostly Iranian forces
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group, missile strikes hit two military targets in Aleppo and Hama provinces
Syria, chemical weapons and the limits of international law
The UN Charter doesn’t allow the use of military force to prevent chemical weapons attacks without UN Security Council approval. That needs to change.
Years of fruitless efforts to end Syria’s war
Since the start of Syria’s war in 2011, numerous efforts to halt the conflict through diplomacy have failed
Inside Syria’s slaughter houses
A shocking report about the systematic killing of detainees Syrian jails is just the tip of the iceberg, experts say.