American and European intelligence analysts now believe that President Bashar al-Assad’s troops have used chemical weapons against rebel forces in the civil war in Syria, an assessment that will put added pressure on a deeply divided Obama administration to develop a response to a...

Influential Sunni clerics from several Arab states including Saudi Arabia and  Egypt  called on Thursday for a holy war against the "sectarian" regime in  Syria . "We must undertake jihad to help our brothers in Syria by sending them money and arms, and providing all aid to...

    Micheal Kilo, the new member of the Syrian National Coalition considered that the recent expansion is expressing the Syrian national will. He pledged in a special Interview with "Zaman Alwasl," to quit from the coalition if it is not independent in its...

 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that spillover from  Syria 's civil war threatens a 40-year-old cease-fire between Syria and  Israel  in the disputed  Golan Heights and recommended bolstering the vulnerable  U.N.  peacekeeping force there by more...