Firefights and shelling on Sunday shattered a weeks-old truce at the Yarmuk Palestinian camp in Damascus, but a ceasefire allowed residents to return to another besieged area near Syria’s capital. Syria’s three-year conflict is estimated to have killed more than 140,000 people,...

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon urged on Monday for the need to re-launch the Syrian peace process, stressing that Damascus in particular must return to Geneva with a more “constructive position,” Agence France-Presse reported. The U.N. secretary general calling to reinstate the peace...

Field sources have confirmed that the nerve agent sarin was used by Bashar al-Assad's forces in an attack on Islam Army in Adra city near Damascus on Sunday, leaving four rebels dead and twenty infected. The victims' symptoms were similar to the Aug. 21 2013 chemical...

The slavery drama "12 Years a Slave" won the Academy Award for best picture on Sunday, making history as the first movie from a black director to win the film industry's highest honor in 86 years of the Oscars. British director Steve McQueen's unflinching portrayal of pre-Civil War...