by David Axe | Dec 24, 2012 | Monitor
The regime of embattled Syrian president Bashar Assad has reportedly gassed rebel forces in the battleground city of Homs.
by David Axe | Oct 19, 2012 | Monitor
View Syria: downed aerial vehicles in a larger map In July, the embattled regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad unleashed its jet fighters against the growing rebel forces of the Free Syrian Army, marking a major escalation of the bloody civil war. The rebels...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 16, 2012 | Monitor
This is a video, posted on Monday to Facebook, of one of Syria’s stronger rebel factions setting a marijuana field ablaze. The incineration of the weed underscores a basic problem for the U.S.’s approach to Syria’s bloody civil war. No, not because...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 15, 2012 | Monitor
A screenshot from a video showing a Free Syrian Army soldier on a rooftop in Zabadani. The Pentagon fears that the weapons pipeline flowing from Persian Gulf states could pose a proliferation risk. Photo: Flickr/SyriaFreedom The Pentagon insists that it’s not...
by David Axe | Aug 28, 2012 | Monitor
Syrian president Bashar Al Assad’s jet fighters and helicopters continue to pound Free Syrian Army rebels in Damascus, Aleppo and other battleground cities, contributing to a death toll reportedly as high as 320 in one town in a single week. Attacks by jet...