At least 80 people have died after government air strikes on a marketplace in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus.

Syrian government has conducted nearly 7,000 air strikes during the month of July, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, making it the most intense bombing reported in one month since the beginning of the conflict in 2011.

Bashar al-Assad received Minister of Religious Endowments Mohammad Abdul-Sattar al-Sayyed and members of the Ministry’s Permanent Committee for the Holy Quran Affairs on Monday.

The number of Syrians tortured to death since the outbreak of the March 2011 uprising has reached 11,429, said a report by UK-based Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR).

This heartrending memoir unravels the most perilous period in Syria’s modern history, a time when President Asad’s notorious secret service agents, the Mukhabarat, hunted down and imprisoned anyone even remotely associated with political opposition. When a “wanted criminal” fled from the Mukhabarat’s clutches, they were held hostage, like in the

On this day three years ago, Assad’s forces massacred Muslims - ‘family by family, one by one’ during ELEVEN HOUR killing spree.

The four-year old who has never spoken, a boy who burns in daylight and the girls terrified of their pillows because they associate sleep with death.