A Syrian rescue service operating in rebel-held territory said on Tuesday a helicopter dropped containers of toxic gas overnight on a town close to where a Russian military helicopter was shot down hours earlier. A spokesman for Syria Civil Defence told Reuters that 33 people, mostly women and...

(Zaman al-Wasl)- A woman was burned in Palmyra city by Iraqi shiite militias fighting in support of Bashar al-Assad, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. Sources said that whoever returned to Palmyra returned under pressure of hard conditions of displacement or under threat clarfiying that the woman...

 The U.S. administration sought on Friday to contain fallout from a leaked internal memo critical of its Syria policy, but showed no sign it was willing to consider military strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces called for in the letter signed by dozens of American...

(The New York Times)- More than 50 State Department diplomats have signed an internal memo sharply critical of the Obama administration’s policy in Syria , urging the United States to carry out military strikes against the government of President Bashar al-Assad to stop its persistent...