The US will not intervene in the Syria conflict because it does not believe anti-Assad rebels would support American interests, its highest ranking military officer wrote in a letter to a congressman. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Barack Obama's chief...

The United States refused to set new "red lines" for Syria Wednesday as claims of a horrific chemical arms strike reignited debate over Washington's reluctance to intervene in the civil war. Claims by Syrian rebels that President Bashar al-Assad's forces massacred 1,300 people in a chemical...

Major General Selim Idriss considered al-Ghouta massacre a response to Free Syrian Army heroic achievements in al-Ghouta   and to their resistances to Assad and Hezbollah Forces trials of raiding the towns of  Ghouta. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

At least 1,300 people have been killed in a nerve gas attack on Syria’s Ghouta region, leading opposition figure George Sabra said on Wednesday.  In response, the opposition Syrian National Coalition called for an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting on the subject. “I call...