Residents from a small rebel held town in Syria have enacted a satirical pantomime that mocks the West's response to last month's chemical weapons attack in Damascus. As  President Barack Obama  pursues a diplomatic track, demanding that the Syrian regime give up its chemical...

Syria is committed to a deal to hand over its chemical weapons, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview, as major powers inched closer to a UN resolution enshrining the agreement. The Syrian president, in an interview with Venezuelan television station Telesur broadcast on Wednesday,...

An Iraqi woman was killed on Thursday when a mortar round slammed into Iraq's consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus, a diplomat told AFP. "A mortar round hit the waiting room of the Iraqi consulate, killed an Iraqi woman and injuring three others," the diplomat said, speaking...

  UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday pressed the major powers to overcome differences on the Syria war amid troubled talks on a UN Security Council resolution on Syria's chemical arms. Ban hosted a lunch with the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France...