A military news service run by the government's Lebanese ally Hezbollah reported on Thursday that the...
Will outside intervention deter Assad from using chemical weapons?
The US ambassador to the OPCW, Ken Ward, had claimed on Monday that the Russians had already visited...
According to US officials, the operation involved three US destroyers, a French frigate and a US submarine...
There was no direct word from Russian President Vladimir Putin on the crisis, though he discussed the...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his close ally Russia, which has helped his air campaign, have denied...
United Nations says 400,000 people are trapped inside the besieged enclave, and were already running...
The only civilians to leave Eastern Ghouta this week were a septuagenarian Pakistani man who moved to...
Earlier on Tuesday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara had worked with Russia to prevent any...
More than 340,000 people have been killed since the civil war erupted in 2011 when protests against Assad's...
The clashes show Moscow is more deeply involved in Syria militarily than it has said, and risks being...
Western officials have cast suspicion on the Syrian government for a chlorine gas attack on a rebel-held...
The Tartus naval facility, in use since the days of the Soviet Union, is too small to play host to larger...
Anti-Assad rebels still cling to patches of territory: a corner of the northwest at the Turkish border,...
Syria's civil war, in its seventh year, has killed hundreds of thousands of people and created the world's...
The last appearance of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who declared himself caliph and heir to Islam's historic...
The report also said ISIS was to blame for the use of sulphur mustard in the Syrian town of Umm Hawsh...
Raqqa was the first big Syrian city to fall to Islamic State as it declared a 'caliphate' and rampaged...
The Saudis, normally heavily dependent on US goodwill and oil consumption, have tended to shy away from...
In Afghanistan, stepped-up attacks on minority Shias claimed by the upstart Islamic State group affiliate...
Backed by Russia and Iran, Assad has crushed numerous pockets of rebel-held territory in the western...
