Rebels have taken full control of Ariha city in Idlib province, Activists said. The city fell by FSA Brigades after a week of intense fighting in the city between Bashar al-Assad's forces and battalions of Ahrar al-Sham, Jabhat al-Nusra and Suqoor al-Shab, the...

The world's governments are demanding that Syria immediately let United Nations inspectors onto the scene of alleged chemical attacks that  killed as many as 1,800 . But even if Bashar al-Assad's regime gave the inspectors permission to visit the disputed battlefields right now, they still...

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...