The European Union's aid chief called for more humanitarian access in Syria on Tuesday at an international conference meant to support the country's ailing peace prospects, but one that quickly got overshadowed by a chemical attack inside Syria. As Christos Stylianides spoke at the gathering...

U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said Tuesday that a "horrific" attack on a rebel-held town in the country that killed at least 58 people was believed to be chemical and launched from the air. "What we have understood, it was a chemical attack and it came from the air," de Mistura told...

A chemical attack that killed 58 civilians, including 11 children,  in a northwestern town Tuesday "calls the political process into question", the opposition's chief negotiator at peace talks told AFP. "If the United Nations cannot deter the regime from carrying out such crimes,...

A rocket slammed into a hospital in northwestern Syria Tuesday as doctors treated victims of a suspected chemical attack, destroying part of the building, an AFP correspondent said. The projectile hit the building in Khan Sheikhun, bringing down rubble on top of medics as they struggled to...