DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A convoy of inspectors from the international watchdog overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons program came under fire on Tuesday in Syria but all staff members were safe, the organization said. The statement came within minutes after...

  (By The Nation -Lauren Wolfe)- The door kept opening. In would come young men, sometimes hobbling a bit. They’d speak to the man behind the desk in Arabic and step back out. I was sitting in a sweaty, brightly painted room in southern Turkey. The man behind the desk was a...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's ambassador to Lebanon said Monday the upcoming Syrian presidential election will be the resounding answer to all those who doubt that his government will prevail in its current conflict. Sitting in his office at the hilltop Syrian Embassy just outside the...

(Writing by George Hadad; Translation by Dani Murad) A confidential document by regime’s ministry of interior showed that the ministry had hidden the confiscated weapons, so it would not be seized by Syrian intelligence services.  ...