(Reuters) - By striking Islamic State in Syria , the United States would be weakening one of President Bashar al-Assad's major enemies. But the new U.S. strategy may still unnerve Assad by helping other opponents determined to overthrow him. The U.S. strategy for tackling...

(Zaman Al Wasl) – Syrian regime airstrikes on Douma, a rebel-held city northeast Damascus, killed at least 20 people, including 4 children and a woman, on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a...

PARIS (AP) — French authorities have arrested a man suspected of being one of the top recruiters of young jihadis for the civil war in Syria, the Interior Ministry said Thursday, describing him as "a particularly dangerous individual." Mourad Fares, 30, was arrested Wednesday...

(Reuters) - The global chemical-weapons watchdog found evidence that chlorine gas was used "systematically and repeatedly" as a weapon in northern Syria , where witnesses described poison barrel bombs crashing into their villages from the sky, the agency said on Wednesday in a...