As the situation in Syria deteriorates with a threatened U.S. airstrike over President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons, the Damascus regime still controls one of the largest conventional hydrocarbon resources in the eastern Mediterranean. Syria possessed 2.5 billion barrels of crude...

An adviser to Bashar al Assad accuses the US of making up evidence, as President Barack Obama seeks support for military action. One of Syrian President Bashar al Assad's advisers has said the United States is using "lies" and "fabrications" to justify the use of the military force. Dr...

Amid growing signs of imminent western military intervention in Syria, Reporters Without Borders has compiled figures that show that around 100 news providers have been killed in Syria since the start of the conflict in March 2011. They include 25 professional journalists (six of them foreign)...

Syria’s ambassador to the UN said his country was “fed up with wars” and called any allegations of using chemical weapons “false and unfounded” in an exclusive and combative interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday. “We haven't declared war to the United States or to...