Medical sources reported that 13 civilians were killed on Wednesday, most of them from "Gharibi" family following the missile bombing of the Ariha city.  The sources pointed out that the shelling of the city accelerated after sudden withdrawal of the regime forces after the...

President Obama warned Wednesday that a potential U.S. military strike on Syria’s ruling regime in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack on its own people would send “a pretty strong signal that they better not do it again.” In  an interview with PBS’s “NewsHour”...

The U.N.-Arab League special envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said Wednesday it was clear a chemical substance had been used in an August 21 attack in the war-torn country, killing hundreds of people. Speaking to reporters in Geneva about the suspected chemical attack, Brahimi said “it does...

Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif condemned any possible military intervention in Syria Wednesday, warning of "graver conditions," should strikes be carried out, Iran's Fars state news agency reported. He likened threats of an attack to a return to "the Middle Ages."...