U.S. naval forces are moving closer to Syria as President Barack Obama considers military options for responding to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad government. The president emphasized that a quick intervention in the Syrian civil war was problematic, given the international...

 The United Nations disarmament chief arrived in the Syrian capital on Saturday to press President Bashar Assad's regime to allow U.N. experts to investigate an alleged chemical weapons attack this week that reportedly killed more than 130 people. Angela Kane, who was dispatched by the...

Syrian state television said government soldiers found chemical agents in rebel tunnels in the Damascus suburb of Jobar on Saturday and some of the troops were suffocating. "Army heroes are entering the tunnels of the terrorists and saw chemical agents," state television quoted a "news...

 ''An Iranian journalist has been killed by foreign-backed Salafist terrorists near the Syrian capital, Damascus,'' according to an Iranian TV channel. Ismael Haidari, a documentary filmmaker, was killed on Wednesday, only a day after another journalist and a documentary...