Divisions in rebel ranks and more committed loyalist fighters are helping the Syrian regime notch up military victories that would give it the upper hand at peace talks, analysts and rebels say. The army's capture this week of the strategic town of Qara, north of Damascus, followed...

The world's chemical watchdog solicited private companies on Thursday to help with the destruction of around two-thirds of Syria's vast stock of chemical weapons, as options dwindle ahead of a tight deadline to complete the task. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons...

Fighting for a key military base outside Syria's main northern city of Aleppo killed at least 15 pro-regime militiamen on Thursday, a monitoring group said. "Fifteen members of the National Defence Forces were killed in fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant,...

  Syria’s over 1,000 tonnes of chemical weapons and precursors could be destroyed at sea if no country agrees to dispose of them on its soil, the world’s chemical watchdog said Wednesday. “This possibility has been looked at for some time already,” Organization for...