Deadly clashes raged on the edge of Damascus on Wednesday and rival rebel factions battled each other in northern Syria as international chemical weapons inspectors began to secure the sites will they will work. The fighting underscored the immense security challenge...

More than 115,000 people have died in Syria’s ongoing civil war, a monitoring group said Tuesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that more than 41,000 civilians — including 6,000 children and 4,000 women — have been killed during the two-and-a-half-year conflict, ...

Syria's opposition warned on Tuesday of a "humanitarian disaster" in the Damascus suburb of Moadamiyet al-Sham, accusing the regime of a campaign to "starve and displace" its residents. "Moadamiyet al-Sham is experiencing a humanitarian disaster," said the National Coalition. President...

 International disarmament experts arrived Tuesday in the Syrian capital to begin the daunting task of cataloguing the country's arsenal of chemical weapons ahead of its destruction. Nineteen inspectors from The Hague-based Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons travelled...