The world's chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday its inspectors have checked 11 out of 20 sites identified by Damascus as it works to eliminate Syria's banned weapons. "The OPCW mission has now conducted verification activities at a total of 11 sites that are identified by Syria's...

  As Muslims around the world mark the Eid Al Adha, sharing festive meals, children trapped in besieged areas around the Syrian capital are going hungry, activists and medics say. In some areas children have died from severe malnutrition, according to one NGO, and a...

Syrian activists say that two days of heavy clashes between Kurdish fighters and al-Qaida-linked rebels in the northeast have killed at least 41 on both sides, AP reported. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says to Associated Press the clashes in Hassakeh province...

I stopped to buy walnuts in Sidon last week from a sunburned man sitting on the pavement of the old souk. Like the walnuts – soft, almost creamy inside their iron-hard husks – he came from the Syrian town of Bloudan. In years gone by, I would take the steam train from the old Haj...