Syrian forces launched a ground offensive Monday on a rebel-held eastern Damascus suburb despite a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day cease-fire across Syria, as the U.N. chief denounced the violence in the embattled region, describing it as "hell on Earth." The...

Allegations that forces loyal to Syrian leader Bashar Assad were to blame for a chlorine attack in Syria's Eastern Ghouta are a provocation aimed at sabotaging a ceasefire in the enclave, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying Monday. Lavrov said a 30-day ceasefire...

The U.N. rights chief Monday slammed a lack of action to rein in increasingly brutal conflicts around the world, describing places like Syria, Yemen and Myanmar as "prolific slaughterhouses". "Eastern Ghouta, the other besieged areas in Syria, Ituri and the Kasais in the [Democratic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Fresh bombardment by the regime army Monday killed at least 10 civilians in the besieged Eastern Ghouta subrubs, including nine members of a same family, a monitor said. Air strikes destroyed a building in Douma, the main town in the Eastern Ghouta area east of...