(The Washington Post)- Yet again, the world is watching gut-wrenching images emerge from the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria. Activists claim the Syrian government launched an airstrike on the town of Khan Sheikhoun in the country's northwestern Idlib province. Scores of...

Some victims of a suspected chemical attack in Syria have symptoms consistent with exposure to a category of chemicals that includes nerve agents, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. The UN health agency said the deadly attack in Idlib province Tuesday appeared to have involved...

Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Wednesday that a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in Syria that killed 72 people was "a major crime." "Targeting and killing civilians with these prohibited methods is considered a major crime and a barbaric act," Aboul Gheit...

( al-Araby al-Jadeed )- Russia defended its ally Damascus on Wednesday in the face of an international outcry over a chemical attack that killed scores of civilians in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun, saying a Syrian airstrike hit a "terrorist warehouse". "According to the objective...