A report by U.N. chemical weapons experts will likely confirm that poison gas was used in an Aug. 21 attack on Damascus suburbs that killed hundreds of people, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday.   "I believe that the report will be an...

It’s been almost a month since Egyptian security forces brutally dispersed the Muslim Brotherhood protest camps, and Cairo’s physical scars have mostly healed. At Nahda Square, the site of the smaller of the two pro-Morsi “sit-in” protests, only the blackened palm trees and scorched...

After each campaign by Bashar al-Assad forces and its Militias on rebels-held areas, the Alawite civilians and loyalist paramilitaries from the National Defence Force are storming the newly recaptured towns and villages, looting Sunni homes and often setting them on fire, with the apparent...

Syria has scattered its stockpile of chemical weapons to as many as 50 sites in a bid to complicate U.S. efforts to track them, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. A secretive Syrian military unit had been given responsibility to shift the arsenal of poison gases and munitions,...