UN chief Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to sanction those responsible for Syrian chemical weapons attacks documented in a newly released report. The UN report, issued Thursday, concluded that such banned arms were used at least five times before Damascus agreed to...

The British-based Human Rights Observatory has sparkled Syrian activists outrage over lack of credibility and partiality to Assad regime despite of describing it by Reuters as pro-opposition.  Ghazwan al-Hakim, prominent field doctor in rebel-held areas in eastern...

Assad cousin Col. Jihad Hamed Makhlouf   killed himself by explosives when rebels attacked his apartment   in Adra al-Ummaliya, 25 km east Damascus, cyber activists circulated. Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed yesterday that  Islamist rebels...

 Syria is hitting back at Saudi Arabia for supporting rebels who want to topple President Bashar Assad by promoting an English-language movie that depicts the founder of the monarchy as a bloodthirsty womanizer. "King of the Sands" opened to much fanfare under tight security...