The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a chemical weapons inspectors has been attacked as premature and giving support to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Opponents of the Syrian dictator said the award of the prize to the Organisation for the Prohibition of...

  Jihadi-led rebel fighters in Syria committed a war crime when they killed at least 190 civilians and abducted more than 200 during an offensive against pro-regime villages, an international human rights group said Friday.   The Aug. 4 attacks on...

   UNICEF has said that the child refugees who fled Syria's war are vulnerable to exploitation including early marriage, domestic violence and child labour, despite efforts to keep them in school. More than one million children, some without parents or close...

International inspectors have so far visited three sites linked to Syria's chemical weapons program, a spokesman said Thursday, as the team races to destroy the country's stockpile and delivery systems amid a raging civil war. Underscoring the complexity of the mission, a regime warplane...