U.S. naval forces are moving closer to Syria as President Barack Obama considers military options for responding to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad government. The president emphasized that a quick intervention in the Syrian civil war was problematic, given the international...

Syrian state television said government soldiers found chemical agents in rebel tunnels in the Damascus suburb of Jobar on Saturday and some of the troops were suffocating. "Army heroes are entering the tunnels of the terrorists and saw chemical agents," state television quoted a "news...

     At least 1300 people were killed, 871 children, 10,000 wounded in A nerve gas Attacks by Assad forces on western and eastern Ghouta, Violation documentation Center in Syria reported.   A detailed and precise report by the VDC that covers what...

 One million Syrian children have now been registered as refugees, forced from their homeland by a war that is well into its third year, the United Nations announced on Friday. "What is at stake is nothing less than the survival and wellbeing of a generation of innocents," António...