After each campaign by Bashar al-Assad forces and its Militias on rebels-held areas, the Alawite civilians and loyalist paramilitaries from the National Defence Force are storming the newly recaptured towns and villages, looting Sunni homes and often setting them on fire, with the apparent...

Syria has scattered its stockpile of chemical weapons to as many as 50 sites in a bid to complicate U.S. efforts to track them, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. A secretive Syrian military unit had been given responsibility to shift the arsenal of poison gases and munitions,...

As the threat of an imminent U.S. attack on  Syria  dims, supporters and officials in the regime of Syrian President  Bashar Assad  are quietly worrying about another potential crisis, one that hits even closer to home. Speculation in Damascus that the...

 U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that prospects for a resumption in the Syrian peace process are riding on the outcome of U.S.-Russian talks aimed at securing Syria's chemical weapons arsenal that lurched into a second day. As...