Available evidence strongly suggests that Syrian government forces were responsible for chemical weapons attacks on two Damascus suburbs on August 21, 2013. These attacks, which killed hundreds of civilians including many children, appeared to use a weapons-grade nerve agent, most likely Sarin....

Some investors trying to protect themselves from any market gyrations provoked by a deepening Syrian crisis are looking to oil as an alternative to top-rated government  bonds , a traditional but currently unappealing haven in uncertain times. With U.S. Treasuries and German bunds...

A Russian proposal for Syria to place its chemical weapons under international control to avoid a Western strike would not stop bloodshed, the Gulf Arab states said on Tuesday. “We've heard of the initiative ... It's all about chemical weapons but doesn't stop the spilling of the blood of...

Syria  is seeking 135,000 metric tons (148,812 tons) of white short grain rice, its General Foreign Trade Organisation (GFTO) said on Monday, after failing to buy in a tender that closed on August 25, Reuters reported. Syria's civil war, now in its third year, has killed more than...