(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Badia Cement factory at the eastern edge of embattled Ghouta suburbs has turned into a regime’s major arsenal, local activists and rebels said. The civil utility in the industrial zone of al-Dumayr town 60 km (40 miles east of Damascus) has become a base for...

 Syrian regime forces took almost complete control of the town of al-Shayfouniya in eastern Ghouta near Damascus on Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, pressing an assault into the last rebel stronghold near the capital. The spokesman for the rebel Jaish...

: The United States and Russia are again clashing over an expert body to determine responsibility for chemical weapons attacks in Syria, with Washington circulating a new draft U.N. resolution and Moscow moving toward a vote on its own proposal. The U.S. and Russia have been lashing out at...

 Air strikes on the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta and shelling from the rebel-held zone into Damascus most likely constitute war crimes andmust be prosecuted, the top U.N. human rights official said on Friday. Zeid Raad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights,...