The world's chemical watchdog solicited private companies on Thursday to help with the destruction of around two-thirds of Syria's vast stock of chemical weapons, as options dwindle ahead of a tight deadline to complete the task. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons...

    An Al-Qaeda front group fighting in Iraq and Syria has called for jihadist groups to join forces under its banner, according to an audio message posted Thursday on the Internet. In remarks purportedly made by Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the Islamic State of Iraq and...

  The U.N. General Assembly’s human right committee approved on Tuesday a Saudi draft resolution demanding immediate humanitarian access to Syrians trapped in the country’s civil war. The draft resolution passed by the General Assembly’s Third Committee also...

Assad Security forces have arrested the Secretary General of the National Co-ordination Body for Democratic Change  in Damascus Wednesday, president of the Co-ordination said. In a statement posted on his Facebook page, Haytham Manna, France-based external head of the...