Syrian activists have posted an audio recording for a commander in Bashar al-Assad’s army showed he was ordering his soldiers to use chemical weapons against rebels in areas affiliated to his control in Idlib and Hama provinces....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Stepping up pressure on Syria, the Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned six Syrian officials and a Russian bank for their alleged support of the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who has been fighting opposition forces in a 3-year-old bloody civil...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the mission charged with destroying Syria's chemical weapons said Thursday the last 16 containers of dangerous chemical agents awaiting transport out of the country are in a contested area not far from Damascus that is currently inaccessible....

By Washington Post- The Obama administration has designated the office of the Syrian Opposition Coalition a “foreign mission” in this country, a category that gives it a symbolic boost in status but that falls well short of diplomatic recognition as a government. The...