On Sunday, September 29, President Bashar al-Assad declared to the world, via an interview on Italian television, his resolve to clear Syria  of chemical weapons - accepting a Russian-brokered deal to avert punitive U.S. action. That same morning his forces appear to have dropped...

Plans for talks to end the fighting in  Syria  were in jeopardy on Tuesday after the opposition refused to attend unless President Bashar al-Assad is forced from power and a furious Saudi Arabia made clear it would no longer co-operate with the United States over the civil war....

Bashar al-Assad forces targeted Monday parts of monument Krak des Chevaliers ,Qalaat al-Hosn, with 5 'Grad' missiles, Sham news network reported.    The rockets largely damaged the basic towers of the citadel, Sham reporter said, assuring it's not the first time...

A 12-year-old student armed with a handgun shot and killed a math teacher and critically wounded two classmates before killing himself at his Nevada middle school on Monday shortly before classes were due to begin, police said. Witnesses described a chaotic scene at the school in the...