A mass grave containing at least 21 corpses was discovered by the White Helmets in Damascus' Sayyida Zeinab suburb.

Bones are visible here and there among the mounds of earth in a field south of Damascus, one of the mass graves around Syria believed to hold the bodies of tens of thousands of people killed under Bashar Assad’s rule.

The first commercial flight since the ouster of president Bashar al-Assad took off from Damascus airport on Wednesday, offering Syrians a glimmer of hope after years of war and decades of oppression.The country's new rulers have sought to keep its institutions going and,