France has said that the international community would need to respond with force if allegations that Syrian government forces had carried out a mass chemical attack on civilians proved to be true. But the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, said there was no question of sending troops...

  Ongoing clashes are taking place between the Free Syrian Army and Assad forces backed with Hezbollah militia in Dahret Abd Rabbuh, industrial halls and the vicinity of Air Force Intelligence in Aleppo Field commander told Zaman Alwasl that FSA is controlling two blocks...

Clashes broke out between the Ansar al-Islam battalion and the Kurdish police forces in the al-Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood east of Aleppo city, reports of human losses from both sides, Syrian observatory said.  The British-based Human Rights observatory said al-Leirmon area...

  The United Nations' special envoy on children in war was in Syria for talks yesterday, as concern mounts over the rising child death toll in the country's bloody two-year conflict. Six children were among 29 people killed in a devastating army bombardment of five...