Israel Radio said on Monday that Israel has evidence backing Syrian opposition accusations that forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad had used non-lethal chemical weapons in Damascus last month. The report quoted an unidentified senior Israeli defense official as saying...

President Bashar al-Assad has forecast that much of the fighting in the Syrian civil war will be over by the end of the year, a former Russian prime minister was quoted on Monday as saying. "This is what he told me: 'This year the active phase of military action in Syria...

The United Nations has been forced to cut the size of food parcels for those left hungry by Syria's civil war by a fifth because of a shortage of funds from donors, a senior official said on Monday. Nevertheless, the United Nations' World Food Programme managed to get food...

The most powerful rebel alliance fighting in Aleppo province released a video Monday announcing “the first stage” of what they are calling the “I’tassam” campaign targeting a number of military sites in and around Aleppo. The campaign by the Joint Operations Room “will...