The table facing the entrance of the Firdoss cafe in the center of Damascus still has its regular customers – a theater director, a poet, a musician and a novelist
Abu Bakr was a former officer in Saddam Husain’s Baath army
The panel of experts found that Darwish’s arrest was arbitrary and called for his release
The camp is under a tight siege that has lasted over 200 days
The women behind the operation were all graduates of a Baath Party training program
Ahmed Jamal Naief was among dozens of ISIS hostages, arrested during clashes in Aleppo province
Shammat was talking at a press conference in Tehran
The Syrian government delegation presented a statement of principles at Geneva on Monday
Talks are only of value if the issue of terrorism is dealt with
Darwish was set to appear before a Damascus court on Monday on “terror” charges along with his colleagues Hussein Ghreir and Hani Zaitani
Parents have completely abstained from sending their children to school in order to protect them from danger
Gold prices in Syria have skyrocketed in Syria over the last two years
The heads of both the Syrian government delegation and the Coalition’s delegation were absent from the first session of negotiations
Sources say regime delegates defiant public image at Geneva differs to its behavior inside close talks
Humanitarian aid and political detainees were discussed in the first round of talks
Mean arrested, women lashed and others beheaded for religious crimes
Clashed took place near the city of Qusayr
Geneva delegates say the government has been cooperating with U.N. for two years on aid delivery
Syrian delegates say Geneva was not designed to discuss humanitarian aid
Syria’s armed conflict escalated even further in 2013 as the government intensified its attacks and began using increasingly deadly and indiscriminate weapons, culminating in a chemical weapons attack on the Damascus countryside on August 21
