UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations says Syrian government troops and affiliated forces have committed war crimes and a crime against humanity in their long siege of eastern Ghouta. In a latest report today, the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said the government troops carried out heavy ...

The European Union on Wednesday called on Russia, Iran and Turkey to ensure a halt to fighting in Syria, as international donors gathered in Brussels to drum up aid for the conflict-ravaged country. As the conflict enters its eighth year, more than 13 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian ...

UNITED NATIONS: A U.N. security team came under fire in Syria while doing reconnaissance for inspectors to visit sites of a suspected chemical weapons attack, and officials said it was no longer clear when the inspectors would be able to go in. The inspectors from the Organisation for the ...

The United States has warned that it will carry out more strikes against Syria if there are any more chemical attacks. Speaking at an emergency session of the UN Security Council, US ambassador to the world body, Nikki Haley, said when the US President draws a red line, he also enforces ...

Britain says Western powers will study options if Syrian government again uses chemical weapons, but nothing is planned as yet. Speaking on British television, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said airstrikes were the right thing to do to deter further use of chemical weapons and showed the ...

ANKARA: Turkey on Saturday welcomed Western strikes targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime as an “appropriate response” in retaliation for a suspected chemical attack that left dozens dead. “We welcome this operation which has eased humanity’s conscience ...

ISLAMABAD:Syrian government forces have taken full control over the town of Douma, the last rebel stronghold in the eastern Ghouta enclave outside Damascus, Russian news agencies reported on Thursday, citing a Russian military official. “The raised state flag over a building in the town of ...

The Syrian government has invited the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to send a team to investigate allegations of a chemical attack in the eastern Ghouta town of Douma, state media reported on Tuesday. The suspected chemical weapons attack late on Saturday killed at least 60 ...

A Syrian rebel group accused government forces on Saturday of launching a deadly chemical attack on civilians in a rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta, and a medical relief organization said 35 people had been killed in chemical attacks on the area. Syrian state media denied government forces ...

The Russian military says 1,100 Syrian rebels and their family members have evacuated from a stronghold in the Damascus suburbs in the past 24 hours. The town of Douma was one of the earliest hubs of the uprising against President Bashar Assad in 2011 and home to the Army of Islam, the largest ...