The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a U.S.-drafted resolution on Friday laying the groundwork for an inquiry that would assign blame for chemical weapons attacks in Syria's civil war. The resolution asks United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon and the head of the Organization for the...

 A cousin of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has shot dead a senior air force officer in a road rage incident in the Latakia coastal heartland of their minority Alawite community, a monitor said Friday. Suleiman al-Assad, a first cousin once removed, killed Colonel Hassan...

Islamic State militants have captured dozens of Christian families after seizing a strategically located town in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Friday. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 230 people were kidnapped or detained,...

At leat 12 people have been killed in Syrian regime air strikes on northern province of Idlib, a monitoring group said on Friday. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 12 civilians were killed in the towns of Arnaba, al-Mouzara, Saraqeb and Ariha. Also, Regime air strikes have killed 3...