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...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime helicopters dropped two containers of toxic gas on al-Hubait town in northern Idlib province, causing 20 breathing difficulties, local activists said Monday.   The regime warplanes have conducted at least 26 raids on al-Hubait and neighboring towns south of...

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...

When Jaafar's grandmother recognized him by his birthmark in a Turkish orphanage, months after his parents were killed fleeing Syria's civil war, she held him tight, screaming for joy. The story of how Hajar Saleh, a 47-year-old nurse, spent fraught weeks tracing her grandson in a foreign...