The White House is making a big push to rally members of Congress and the American public behind President Barack Obama's plan for a U.S. military strike against Syria. His administration says the government of Syrian President Bassar Assad used chemical weapons in an attack last month...

  Men sprawled on a tile floor, shirtless and convulsing. Children, too, seemingly unable to control their shaking and flailing. Panic and screams in the background. These are some of the hard-to-stomach images that the Obama administration has shown a select group of...

How chemical weapons were used in Syria 1,700 years ago by Persian attackers to kill Roman soldiers defending their city   - Persians may have used poisoned gas to kill Roman soldiers during siege. - They pumped a compound of bitumen and sulfur into...

  Gulf Cooperation Council states support international measures aimed at deterring the Syrian regime and preventing it from "committing inhuman practices," said GCC Secretary General Abdullatif Al-Zayani on Saturday, according to KUNA, news agency. Al-Zayani, in a...