Pressure intensified on Syrian rebels on Monday to permit access to chemical weapons sites in areas under their control, as officials said the rapidly shifting lines in the civil war made it difficult for inspectors to reach some locations and called for all parties to ease the process...

The president of Syria has said that he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize - a comment likely to raise eyebrows around the world. Bashar al-Assad, the president of  Syria , has joked that he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize after it was awarded to the international weapons...

Shortly before its operatives killed 14 Iraqi Shiite children in a school bombing this month, the group once known as al-Qaeda in Iraq sent guerrillas into northern Syrian villages with orders to reopen local Sunni classrooms. In a series of early fall visits, the militants handed out religious...

The discovery of a secret tunnel from the Gaza Strip into Israel has prompted the Israeli government to order an immediate halt of all construction materials to Gaza. The Israeli military found the mile-long underground passage running between a home in a Hamas-controlled area, and a...