Residents say lines for bread across government-controlled areas can run up to five hours long as wheat imports dwindle. Despite popular discontent, Assad appears to be on course to win elections
Syria's military confirmed that air defenses were triggered to respond to strikes around 10:35 P.M. ■ No deaths reported by Syrian authorities
Assad may still be in power, propped up by Russia and Iran, but millions are being pushed deeper into poverty, and a majority of households can hardly scrape together enough to secure their next meal
Security forces killed three people they said were terrorists and arrested three more, state media reported
Those sanctioned include the president's foreign minister and close advisers as country marks ten years of conflict
Goods flow from parts of the country controlled by opposition forces to regime-run areas, disrupted by occasional fighting in poverty-stricken Syria, which has largely dropped from the headlines
Since the civil war began in 2011, an estimated 2.4 million people were displaced every year in and outside Syria, the Norwegian Refugee Council said this week
France's intelligence services concluded that a sarin gas attack near Damascus that killed 1,400 people had been carried out by government forces, which the Syrian regime has denied
The report notes 'massive scale of detention' and abuses perpetrated by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and also lists detentions by insurgent groups, including Turkey-backed opposition fighters
UN investigators argue 'enforced disappearance' by Syrian authorities during a decade of conflict, with many tortured, raped or killed, may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity
