Syria conflict: 'Scores of bodies found' near Damascus
Found on BBC News on Sunday, 26 August 2012
Many of those killed in the town of Darayya were victims of execution-style killings, the activists said.
President Bashar al-Assad, who also met the Iranian delegation, said Syria would continue its current policy "whatever the cost" and accused Western nations of a regional conspiracy.
The activists say that many of the victims had gunshot wounds to the head and chest and were killed during house-to-house raids by government troops.
Even though Syria and Iraq are pretty close to each other, it seems like nobody wants to "liberate" Syria, even though it has oil and, unlike Saddam, even chemical weapons. Maybe because Assad has invested quite a bit into the military system so it won't be easy to stop it, unlike Saddam's. It's always easier to fight the weak ones.