British ambassador to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has described a briefing by Russia and Syria as “a stunt”, saying the U.K. will not attend it with its allies. “The OPCW is not a theatre,” Ambassador Peter Wilson said in a statement Thursday....

Syria’s regime Wednesday moved to tighten its grip on the capital as it retook a region outside Damascus from rebels and pounded southern districts to oust militants. In the town of Douma retaken more than a week ago, global chemical weapons experts visited a second site after an...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Local activists said on Wednesday that at least 9 civilians were killed in air strikes carried out by a U.S.-led coalition in Hasaka province in northeast Syria. The strikes hit the ISIS-held town of Abu Hamedha in the southern countryside near the Iraqi border....

A Palestinian journalist shot two weeks ago by Israeli forces on the Gaza border has died, Israeli and Palestinian sources said Wednesday, the second journalist killed in a month of unrest. Ahmad Abu Hussein, 25, was shot on April 13 while covering protests along the Gaza border for a...