BRUSSELS (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog plans to vote Wednesday on whether it should have authority to apportion blame for attacks, an idea arising from frictions between Britain and its key Western allies on one side and Russia and Syria on the other. The British...

The United States will "take firm and appropriate measures" in response to Syrian government violations in a designated de-escalation zone in the country's southwest, the State Department said on Thursday. After seven years of conflict, the southwest of Syria, bordering Jordan and the...

 The global chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday that the nerve agent sarin and toxic chemical chlorine were "very likely" used as weapons in two attacks in central Syria in late March 2017, the latest confirmation of chemical attacks in the civil war. The Organization for the...

For decades, the collective Arab dream has been a "free Palestine". Since the 1950s, the Palestinian cause has been the pinnacle of Arab aspirations and the centre of the pan-Arab movement. Arabs and Palestinians identified with each other through a shared language, similarities in culture and...