The U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State on Thursday denied a Syrian army report it had carried out an air strike that had hit poison gas supplies belonging to IS and caused the deaths of hundreds of people. A statement by the Syrian army, circulated by state media, said the alleged...

( Independent )- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has reiterated that his government had nothing to do with the chemical gas incident in a rebel-held village last week that killed more than 80 people. Allegations that his forces had deliberately poisoned civilians were ''100 per cent...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Syrian regime is unable to supply sufficient quantities of bread and foodstuffs in eastern Deir Ez Zor city, threatening the lives of thousands of civilians. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, Jalal al-Hamd, the director of the Justice Observatory for Life in Deir Ez Zor,...

Syria's government and rebels exchanged some 30 prisoners and nine bodies, part of a larger agreement to evacuate four besieged areas in different parts of the country, activists and officials said Wednesday. Hakim Baghdadi, a member of the relief committee for al-Foua and Kfarya, two...