There can be no reasonable doubt that the photographs of the absolute destruction of many Syrian neighborhoods are real, nor that the accounts of civilian bombing and gassing, identical among victims but for details like location and type of bomb, are real. Of course rebels kill, in a nation where every military and paramilitary force kills. You would like the rebels to go home, unlike the four million civilian Syrian refugees who can't go home, or the additional half million Syrian dead; but the rebels won't go home, and a great many of the refugees, if they return, will be murdered by el Assad, as is happening now. Arrest, imprisonment, death.

You seem to have an affinity with murderous dictators like el Assad and Putin. Both are monsters.