(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces stepped up its ground bombardment on opposition-held areas in central Homs province, killing six civilians and wounding 15 more, local reporter said on Monday. The regime army backed by Iranian militias targeted the towns of al-Meshrefa, Talbiseh,...

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says it has opened an investigation over the weekend's suspected poison gas attack in Syria. The organization's director general, Ahmet Uzumcu, has expressed "grave concern in response to the alleged chemical weapons attack" over...

Germany says the Syrian regime must be held accountable for the deadly chemical attacks against its own population. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert says images of the aftermath of Saturday's attack in Douma "should move all of us." Seibert told reporters on Monday that "the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed his concerns to Russia's Vladimir Putin over a suspected poison gas attack in Syria. Officials from the Turkish president's office say the two leaders spoke by phone on Monday during which Erdogan also emphasized the "importance of...

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says three Iranians were among those killed in a missile attack on a Syrian air base. Russia and the Syrian military blamed Monday's pre-dawn strike, which reportedly killed 14 people, on Israel. The Fars report on Monday identified the...

President Donald Trump Sunday condemned a "mindless CHEMICAL attack" in Syria that killed women and children, called Syrian President Bashar Assad an "animal" and said there would be a "big price to pay" for resorting to outlawed weapons of mass destruction. Hours later, Syria's...

President Emmanuel Macron and his U.S.counterpart Donald Trump agreed on Monday that chemical weapons had been used against civilians in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta on April 7, and said they would work together to establish clear responsibility for the attack. According to a French...

   Russia and the Syrian military blamed Israel for a pre-dawn missile attack Monday on an air base in central Syria, saying Israeli fighter jets launched the missiles from Lebanon's air space. A war-monitoring group said the airstrikes killed 14 people, including Iranians...

The Bashar al-Assad regime, which claimed to have destroyed its stock of chemical weapons, continues unfettered attacks on Syrian civilians. Since the beginning of the civil war, the regime forces have carried out 215 chemical attacks. The attacks are an attempt to force civilians out...

Iran's Foreign Ministry said Sunday reports of a gas attack in Syria were not based on facts and were an "an excuse" by the United States and Western countries to take military action against Damascus, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported. "Such claims and allegations by the...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian Sunday said reports of a chemical attack in a rebel-held town in Syria were extremely worrying and called for the United Nations Security Council to meet quickly to examine the situation. Le Drian said France strongly condemned attacks and...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday called on the West to pay attention to children, women and civilians being "martyred" in Eastern Ghouta. At least 80 civilians were killed after Bashar al-Assad regime forces struck targets in Eastern Ghouta’s Douma district in an attack, in...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said there will be a "big price to pay" after what he called a "mindless CHEMICAL attack" in Syria, allegedly involving chlorine gas. Trump also called Syrian President Bashar Assad an "animal." "President Putin, Russia and Iran are...

White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said on Sunday that nothing should be taken "off the table” after reports of an apparent chemical attack in Syria. Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Bossert said President Donald Trump’s national security team had been reviewing photos and...

Pope Francis Sunday deplored the gas attack reported in Syria as an unjustifiable use of "instruments of extermination". "There is no such thing as a good war and a bad war. Nothing, but nothing, can justify the use of such instruments of extermination on defenseless people and...

Fresh air strikes hit rebel-held areas of Syria's Eastern Ghouta Sunday, a monitor said, after more than 80 people were killed in weekend raids including an alleged chemical attack denounced by the United States. Sunday's strikes came despite reports Sunday of a ceasefire and the...

The US is monitoring reports of a possible chemical weapon attack in Syria and said Russia should be held responsible if the incident did involve deadly chemicals, the State Department said on Saturday. The statement came after a Syrian rebel group accused government forces on Saturday...

A chemical attack in Douma, the last rebel-held stronghold near the capital, Damascus, has killed at least 75 people and affected hundreds, Civil Defense rescuing group and local activists said Saturday. The White Helmets, a group of rescuers operating in opposition-held areas in Syria,...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime demanded rebels of southern Damascus suburbs to fight Daesh and Nusra Front before allowing them to leave to northern Idlib province, sources said Saturday. The regime has reached a deal with the reconciliation committees in the suburbs of Bait...

At least 47 people have been killed in two days of attacks in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta, according to sources with the White Helmets civil defense agency.  The besieged district has been under intensive airstrikes and shelling by regime and Russian warplanes since...