Pro-Assad social media activists triggered fierce campaign on Mother Belagia Sayyaf, the Head of the Saint Mar Takla monastery in Maloula in Ma'loula in Damascus Countryside for appearing on Lebanese media denying that rebels have destroyed the Christian monuments....

It isn't the U.S. cruise missiles that terrify Saleem, a pro-government militia fighter who survived some of the toughest battles of  Syria 's civil war. It's the rebel onslaught that could begin once American bombs start to fall. Holed up on bases where loudspeakers blare patriotic...

If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad gives up his chemical weapons, a military strike would "absolutely" be on pause, President Obama said today to ABC News. "I consider this a modestly positive development," Obama told ABC News' Diane Sawyer in an interview at the White House when asked...

Syrian government forces were most likely to blame for the deadly chemical weapons attack last month which left hundreds dead, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. A 22-page report issued by the US rights watchdog concluded that available evidence "strongly suggests" that President Bashar...