BEIRUT (AP) — The chief of the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group has hailed Bashar Assad's victory in Syria's presidential election this week, saying the "massive" turnout shows the war and the West's conspiracy against Syria have failed. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah — a staunch...

(Reuters) - France said on Thursday samples it had collected suggesting Syrian government forces had used chlorine gas in the country's civil war may not prove to be conclusive and would need to be cross-checked with other information to determine its use. The Organization...

  A well-informed source says 450 detainees with ‘Terrorism charges’ by Syrian regime to be released on Friday from Adra prison near Damascus. Lawyer and Human rights advocate Michel Shammas said other 80 female detainees  would be...

    DAMASCUS, Syria — The temperature had exceeded 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) in the Syrian capital. Traveling to the office of a government official required circumventing multiple blocked roads. The taxi driver took the...