The Islamic State group used poison gas in attacks against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria in late June, a Syrian Kurdish militia and a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said on Saturday. The YPG militia said Islamic State had fired "makeshift chemical...

  By Labib Al Nahhas Labib Al Nahhas is head of foreign political relations for Ahrar al-Sham. (Washington Post)- As has become obvious, the Obama administration’s response to the Syrian conflict is an abject failure. No clear strategy has been determined; the administration’s “red...

Syria rejected a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution condemning its aerial bombing tactics record on Thursday, saying the use of barrel bombs was a "technical" issue that was no business of the Geneva-based body. The United States and 10 European and Arab countries backed the resolution...

 WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release of US State Department cables in 2010, AP reported.  WikiLeaks said in a statement that it has already...