Secretary of State John Kerry today rejected a call from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the U.S. to drop its threat of force before Syria gives up its  chemical weapons . "President Obama has made clear that should diplomacy fail, force might be necessary to deter and degrade...

      An Islamic group has dominated Oil extraction equipment after capturing an oil field close to the Iraqi borders 4 months ago, senior leader in 'Ahl al-Athar' brigade told Zaman Alwasl.   The technical engineer who works in the oil station...

    Recruits attend a class to be trained as part of a police battalion under the Free Syrian Army's 'Farouq Omar Brigade' at their headquarters in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus September 11, 2013.      

The head of the opposition Free Syria Army, General Salim Idriss, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday that he has intelligence that the Assad regime is moving its chemical weapons out of the country. “Today we have information that the regime began to move chemical materials and...