The United Nations on Monday revealed what it called "chilling" details of a sarin gas attack in Syria, leaving the major powers to battle over who was responsible. UN chief Ban Ki-moon condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria as "a war crime" as the country's conflict again spilled...

U.N. inspectors said Monday there is "clear and convincing evidence" that chemical weapons were used on a relatively large scale in an attack last month in Syria that killed hundreds of people in the country's civil war. The findings represent the first official confirmation by scientific...

  Reporting from the Syrian city of Homs, FRANCE 24 finds the abandoned Sunni district of Baba Amr in ruins, while life is limping back to normal in the loyalist neighbourhood of Zahra under the careful watch of Syrian troops.   Standing on a street that has been...

The main Syrian exile opposition group, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, issued  a statement  on Friday denouncing Syria’s willingness to join the Chemical Weapons Convention as a feint by the government of President Bashar al-Assad and saying,...