Syria is committed to a deal to hand over its chemical weapons, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview, as major powers inched closer to a UN resolution enshrining the agreement. The Syrian president, in an interview with Venezuelan television station Telesur broadcast on Wednesday,...

  To have your passport renewed is a big trouble if you are from the opposition and you want to go to your country embassy where the embassies' employees intended to despise Syrians who are looking for services related to their residency in the host country....

Syrian President Bashar Assad's document is surprisingly thorough, say officials familiar with the closely guarded information. Signaling that he may be serious about giving up his chemical weapons, Syrian President Bashar Assad  has disclosed the locations of dozens of poison gas...

In early June 2011, some three months into the uprising against the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, Syrian government forces began preparing for a large-scale assault on Jisr al-Shughour, a rebellious border town sixty-five miles southwest of Aleppo. The events that led to this...