WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.New book reveals the grotesque torture and murder meted out by Syrian dictator Assad - the man Putin is helping to keep in power

 As Russia launches airstrikes in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad (bottom right), photographs remind the world of what the Syrian president is capable of. While the barbarity of groups such as ISIS are regularly recorded in propaganda videos produced by the terrorists themselves, Assad is notorious for trying to keep his evil acts a secret. But Caesar's photos (main and top right) show that he, a sovereign ruler, had plumbed the same depths as the terror group.(dailymail)