Ban Ki-moon to present report to UN Security Council on Monday after it was submitted to him by UN team. UN chemical weapons inspectors have handed their report into an alleged gas attack in Syria to Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general. The report into the incident, in which more...

Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons bargain with  Russia and the United States offers another political and military lifeline to the Syrian president, just two years after he was dismissed in Washington as a "dead man walking". The deal, reached under the shadow of threatened U.S....

Footage has surfaced on the internet that gives the first tangible indication of Iran's involvement in the fighting in Syria on the side of the government forces, reports BBC Persian's Kasra Naji. Information that can be gleaned from the footage indicates that the Iranian fighters are part...

Activists in the city of Raqqa reported the death of a young woman called "Iman al-Halabi" in front of al-Rashid Garden near the Apple cafe. An eyewitness called himself "al-Raqqawi” who was in the crime scene said that the young lady "Iman", who was called “Tishreen”...