( Daily Star )- At least 27 children were killed in the attack in Syria this week, and more than 500 people wounded in a toll that is expected to rise, UNICEF said Thursday. "The killing of children in Syria cannot be allowed to continue," said Geert Cappelaere, Middle East regional director...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes on Thursday stepped up airstrikes on southern Daraa city as rebels press gains in strategic district in the Old City, taking security barracks, local activists said. Al-Manshiya neighborhood, the regime’s largest barrack in Daraa and which is a home...

( Reuters )- The Syrian government set conditions on Thursday for any international inquiry into a suspected chemical attack that killed scores of people, saying it must not be "politicized" and should set out from Damascus and not Turkey. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem said Syria's past...

( Daily Star )- Syria's armed forces "did not and will not" use chemical weapons, even against extremist groups, Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said Thursday. "I stress to you once again: the Syrian army has not, did not and will not use this kind of weapons -- not just against our own...