G7 foreign ministers have failed to agree on whether fresh sanctions should be imposed on Syrian President Bashar Assad or his ally Russia, Italy's Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Tuesday. "At the moment there is no consensus on new sanctions as an effective instrument," he said at the...

Hundreds of Syrian students gathered on Tuesday outside the United Nations headquarters in Damascus to protest last week's U.S. strike on a government air base. Demonstrators waved the two-star flag of the Syrian government and pictures of President Bashar Assad outside the U.N.'s office in...

It's the dead children that still haunt Abu Ghassan, who was blinded for more than a month and paralysed for weeks by a nerve gas attack four years ago in a Damascus suburb. He recovered; 37 members of his family were among the hundreds of dead. Last week, when another gas attack killed...

( The Guardian )- Many reasons were advanced for Donald Trump’s decision to order last week’s strike on a Syrian airfield. In addition to the justifications he gave – the US national interest, the need to demonstrate that the use of chemical weapons had a cost, the emotional response to...