BEIJING (AP) — At least 12 people were killed and 39 seriously injured Sunday after a gas line explosion tore through a residential neighborhood in central China. Responders to the early morning blast in the city of Shiyan in Hubei province sent more than 150 people to the hospital,...

The head of the international chemical weapons watchdog told the U.N. Security Council that its experts have investigated 77 allegations against Syria, and concluded that in 17 cases chemical weapons were likely or definitely used. Fernando Arias called it "a disturbing reality" that eight...

Bashar al-Assad has appointed Mohamed Khaled Nasri as a Director General of the Center for Scientific Studies and Research, succeeding Amr Armanazi who held the post for 22 years.   Nasri, who ran the Institute 1000 in the scientific research center, is considered as one the...

Desperate Syrians in eastern Ghouta had to come up with creative ways to meet basic needs and avoid starvation when regime forces in 2013 imposed a crippling siege on them. Omar Mubarak, an English teacher in the region's Hawsh al-Dawahira village, built a biogas project that helped provide...