The European Union's aid chief called for more humanitarian access in Syria on Tuesday at an international conference meant to support the country's ailing peace prospects, but one that quickly got overshadowed by a chemical attack inside Syria. As Christos Stylianides spoke at the gathering...

The European Union and the U.N. host a two-day conference starting Tuesday on Syria's future, with Russian-backed President Bashar Assad as firmly in place as ever despite efforts to oust him. EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini has billed the gathering in Brussels as a follow-up to...

Syrian regime forces intensified their bombardment of opposition-held areas around Damascus on Monday and besieged city of Douma northeast of capital, the latest in the regime's push to erase battlefield advances made by insurgents in March. Airstrikes on the rebel-held Damascus suburb of...

One evening in the early days of Syria’s uprising, Mohsen al-Masri’s band of activists slipped through the Damascus streets and waited for the coast to clear. Then they crouched, opened their bags and let out a stream of color. Thousands of ping-pong balls, painted green, pink, blue...