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The Syrian president's massacres of his own people have made him unpopular across the region, particularly among the Sunnis who hold majorities in all but one of the allied countries and who are wary of Assad's sectarian connections.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Dozens of bodies, possibly more than 200, were found Saturday in a town outside Damascus, raising the specter of a massacre by Syrian troops as bad as any atrocity committed since the Syrian uprising began nearly 18 months ago.
"It was a slaughter, a massacre," a Syrian with expert knowledge of the military told me.
Abu Hajer said he had grave objections to what happened to the Syrian soldiers in the massacre that he filmed in the desert near Tabqa air base.
The perplexed Belgian mothers talk about how their offspring felt they didn't belong and of their fury at the massacre of Syrian Muslims by Assad.
As my colleague Anne Barnard reports, an investigation from Human Rights Watch released on Friday bolsters claims that Syrian rebels conducted a massacre of civilians in August in Latakia, the heartland of President Bashar al-Assad's ruling Alawite sect.
But what will prove crucially important is today's "high confidence" assessment by the Joint Intelligence Committee JICC) that the Syrian regime perpetrated the massacre of 21 August in Ghouta – its fifteenth and latest use of chemical weapons.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — New details emerging Saturday about what local Syrian activists called a massacre of civilians near the central city of Hama indicated that it was more likely an uneven clash between the heavily armed Syrian military and local fighters bearing light weapons.
