The governor of the Hama province in central Syria was assassinated on Sunday in a car bombing, regime television reported while according the blame on opposition fighters, according to Agence France-Presse. “Terrorists assassinated Anas Abdel Razzaq al-Naem, the Hama governor, in a car...

Syria agreed to let the United Nations inspect the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack from Monday but a U.S. official said any such offer would be "too late to be credible" and there was little doubt the government was to blame. Foreign powers have been searching for a response...

 Intervention will "burn ... whole Middle East", Assad's minister says amid new tensions over alleged chemical-weapons attack. The regime government has warned the US not to launch any military action against the country over an alleged chemical-weapons attack earlier in...

 A Syrian rebel leader plans to visit London to beg Foreign Secretary William Hague to support British and American military action against President Assad, British Daily mail reported. The plea comes after a chemical attack, apparently by Assad’s forces, killed hundreds...