Assad forces dropped poisonous gas bombs near Jobar district’s police station early today, causing several non-life threatening injuries. The bombs seem to contain a chlorine substance which caused suffocation, convulsions and extreme sweating. Residents at first feared sarin had...

 Angela Merkel may not personally like Vladimir Putin very much, but the German chancellor is surely pleased the Russian president’s diplomatic efforts have temporarily averted U.S. plans for a military strike against Syria. Constrained by Germany’s jingoistic past and a looming...

The United States has reportedly started funneling weapons and technical equipment to rebel fighters in Syria. Citing US and Syrian sources,  the Washington Post  wrote that the CIA had begun delivering shipments of lethal aid in the past fortnight. The newspaper reported on...

U.N. inspectors have collected a "wealth" of evidence on the use of nerve agents that points to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons against his own people, according to a senior Western official. The inspection team, which is expected on Monday to present U.N. Secretary...