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Syrian regime frees 40 detainees, including army defectors

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime has freed 40 detainees, including army defectors, after at least three years in military and civil prisons, the Coordinator of the Detainees association said. Most of the prisoners were freed from Sednaya military prison on Tuesday, according to Diab...

Chemical weapons experts to inspect attack site in Syria

The international chemical weapons watchdog said Tuesday it was sending a fact-finding mission to the Syrian town where a suspected chemical gas attack took place over the weekend, following a request from the Syrian government and its Russian backers that appeared to be aimed at averting...

Hundreds of civilians killed in Syria in March: NGO

At least 783 civilians were killed in attacks across war-torn Syria last month, according to a Syrian human rights group on Tuesday.   A total of 198 children and 138 women were among the civilian fatalities in Syria in March, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a...

Trump to skip Americas summit to oversee Syria response

President Donald Trump will skip a summit in Latin America this week to oversee the U.S. response to a suspected chemical attack in Syria after he threatened military action, the White House confirmed Tuesday. Trump was scheduled to attend the April 13-14 Summit of the Americas in Lima,...