Syrian social media activists have launched on Thursday a new hashtag on Twitter # BloodElections “to expose the coming presidential elections,” calling for all activists inside Syria and abroad to take apart in the campaign.   The campaign organizers...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the mission charged with destroying Syria's chemical weapons said Thursday the last 16 containers of dangerous chemical agents awaiting transport out of the country are in a contested area not far from Damascus that is currently inaccessible....

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  (AP) — A rebel-claimed bombing Thursday in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo leveled a hotel that government troops used as a military base, along with several other buildings in a government-held area, activists and militants said. Syrian state television said an explosion...