Bashar al-Assad

The Syrian regime has five chemical agents plants and several dozen additional storage sites some of which are in hardened bunkers.

Violent clashes between Syrian rebels and the regime's forces have now reached Aleppo.

Fighting continues in Damascus, with government troops withdrawing in several areas.

UN observers say the attack appears to have been aimed at specific rebel groups and army defectors.

After bombing the region from helicopters, Syrian forces reportedly carried out execution-style killings slaughtering women and children.

Syria's ambassador to Iraq, Nawaf al-Fares, becomes the first top diplomat to defect from Bashar al-Assad's government delivering a major blow to the discredited regime.

Clinton says Syrian rebels are becoming more effective in their fight against the Assad regime.

Shelling of Lebanon from Syria raises the spectre of the conflict escalating and dragging in neighbouring countries where Syrians have taken refuge from the brutal Assad regime.

Leaked emails point to lavish, insulated lifestyle of Bashar and Asma al-Assad while bloody crackdown continued around them.

Assad has issued several amnesties since March, but it is believed that thousands of political activists still remain detained.