I've spent much of the last week in Antakya, an ancient city, known to Byzantine Christians as Antioch, which now serves as a bivouac for Syrian rebel fighters and a jumping-off point for journalists and humanitarian actors working in Syria, which lies 20...

 The United States and its partners are planning a series of rapid steps to dismantle  Syria ’s chemical weapons program, a strategy that is intended to guard against backsliding by President Bashar al-Assad  and limit the time that international experts need to work in the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a German magazine he would not negotiate with rebels until they laid down their arms, and said he was still considering whether to run for office again next year. In an extensive interview with Der Spiegel, Assad said he did not believe it was...

Sixteen-year-old Mohammad al Zeibaa lost his entire family in the sarin gas attack east of Damascus six weeks ago, surviving the world's deadliest chemical weapons strike in a quarter century only because he was out working a hospital night shift. Mohammad's father, who rushed to the...