Forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, local Activists reported. The explosion occurred in the south-eastern district of Wadi al-Dhahab, which the army has taken over, the...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday he was confident of victory against rebels in a devastating 28-month-old civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people and sent nearly two million fleeing abroad. Insurgents have seized large swathes of territory, but Assad's forces...

UN inspectors will investigate three sites in Syria where chemical weapons attacks were alleged to have occurred "as soon as possible", the UN said Wednesday. The move follows a deal the UN reached with Damascus last week . UN inspectors will go to Syria to...

 Fierce shelling on al-Mashhed neighborhood in the city of Aleppo had killed 5 people at least and dozens wounded, l ocal sources reported to Zaman Alwasl . According to activists there's no armed presence in the neighborhood which is dedicated to the relief work only....