(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists in northeastern Damascus district of Barzeh  accused the local aid office of practicing a policy of starving the neighborhood’s remaining residents to force them to accept a “reconciliation” with the regime. ,Such a reconciliation would involve...

 Russia blocked a Western effort at the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to condemn last week's deadly gas attack in Syria and push Moscow's ally President Bashar al-Assad to cooperate with international inquiries into the incident. It was the eighth time during Syria's six-year-old...

( The Wall Street Journal )- The suspected sarin gas attack in Syria last week revealed one of the worst-kept secrets in international diplomacy: A 2013 deal brokered by Russia and the U.S. failed to cripple the Assad regime’s ability to make or use chemical weapons. International...

Syria's government and rebels exchanged some 30 prisoners and nine bodies, part of a larger agreement to evacuate four besieged areas in different parts of the country, activists and officials said Wednesday. Hakim Baghdadi, a member of the relief committee for al-Foua and Kfarya, two...