Syrian female activist Majd Izzat al-Chourbaji received the International Women of Courage  award  Friday in a ceremony at the U.S. State Department. Chourbaji, 34, was one of 10 women honored for risking their lives to protect others. After...

The  Syria n army has killed an Islamic State commander in an air strike in central Syria that killed more than two dozen members of the ultra-hardline group, a monitoring group said on Saturday. The Islamic State commander was identified as one of the group's...

Syria's envoy to the United Nations says it's time for the United States and other Western powers to accept that President Bashar al-Assad is here to stay, and to abandon what he suggested was a failed strategy of trying to split the Middle East into sectarian enclaves....

 The United Nations Security Council condemned the use of chlorine as a weapon in Syria and threatened to take action if such arms are used again in the conflict, which is now in its fourth year, but didn't lay blame for previous chlorine attacks. The 15-member...