Clashes raged between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish militia in Syria's Afrin region Wednesday, as wounded civilians fled intense Turkish air strikes. Turkey and allied Syrian rebels have pressed on with Operation Olive Branch in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin enclave...

The Syrian government's chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin nerve agent attack of the civil war, diplomats and scientists told Reuters, supporting Western claims that government forces under President Bashar Assad were...

Heavy fighting resumed in Syria's Eastern Ghouta Sunday after a short period of relative calm following reports that a cease-fire had been agreed there late Friday, a war monitor and pro-government media sources said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 5 civilians killed on Sunday as regime forces stepped up aerial and ground bombing on the besieged Eastern Ghouta suburbs, local activists said. The bombardment of the rebel-held eastern enclave of Damascus continued since Saturday after  collapse of...