SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea denied reports it had cooperated with Syria on chemical weapons, dismissing them as a fabrication by the United States to pressure the country, state media reported late Thursday. State run KCNA news agency cited a spokesman at the foreign ministry’s...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces and key ally Russia gave urged rebel factions to surrender in the northern countryside of Hama province, giving 72-hour timeout before launching major offensive, residents told Zaman al-Wasl. Jaish al-Izza, Jaish al-Naser and the Second...

Syrian activists say the Turkish air force has hit two positions of pro-regime Syrian fighters deployed last week in the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, killing and wounding a number of fighters. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the airstrikes took place late...

 Syria's regime may allow an aid convoy with supplies for 180,000 people to go to the town of Douma in the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta Sunday, the Middle East director of the U.N. children's agency UNICEF said Friday. Geert Cappelaere told a news conference that there was no...