Syrian regime airstrikes and shelling killed 17 civilians including seven children Friday in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk in southern Damascus, a Britain-based activist group said. Government forces have pounded southern districts of the capital since April 19 to try to expel Daesh (ISIS)...

Syrian regime forces Friday advanced against Daesh (ISIS) militants in the south of Damascus, state media said, after more than a week of bombardment on the area. "Army units backed by the air force and artillery have advanced on numerous axes" in southern Damascus, including the...

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...