Medecins Sans Frontieres says hospitals it supports in Syria treated about 3,600 patients with "neurotoxic symptoms", of whom 355 have died. It said  the patients had arrived in three hospitals in the Damascus governorate on 21 August - when opposition activists say chemical attacks...

U.S. naval forces are moving closer to Syria as President Barack Obama considers military options for responding to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad government. The president emphasized that a quick intervention in the Syrian civil war was problematic, given the international...

Heavily armed Lebanese security forces deployed across the northern city of Tripoli on Saturday as forensic experts sifted through the rubble from twin car bombs that killed at least 47 people the day before. The coordinated explosions Friday outside two mosques in the predominantly Sunni...

 The United Nations disarmament chief arrived in the Syrian capital on Saturday to press President Bashar Assad's regime to allow U.N. experts to investigate an alleged chemical weapons attack this week that reportedly killed more than 130 people. Angela Kane, who was dispatched by the...