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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad marks his 48th birthday on Wednesday with the threat of US-led strikes against his regime in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack apparently receding.   A Syrian pro-regime site called on…

(Reuters) - Fighters from an al Qaeda-linked rebel group killed 12 members of the minority Alawite sect in central Syria after seizing their village, an opposition monitoring group said on Wednesday. Alawites are an offshoot sect of…

(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday Syria must be stripped of its chemical weapons and that the international community must make sure those who use weapons of mass destruction pay a price. Speaking…

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama told Americans Tuesday he would pursue a newly energized diplomatic course to try to resolve the standoff with Syria, but he insisted that the U.S. must conduct military strikes, if needed, in response to…

WASHINGTON—Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) called a Russian plan for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons a stalling tactic, in comments Wednesday at a Wall Street Journal event the morning after President Barack Obama addressed the…

Deir Izzor province: Regular forces are still clashing with al-Nusra front and several rebel factions in the perimeter of the Deir Izzor military airport, after a suicide bomber from al-Nusra called "Abu Asma' al-Australi" blew up…

Hama province: The airforce bombardment rebel and ISIS strongholds in the al-Rahiya village of eastern Reef Hama. The ISIS have taken control over the al-Hweija, al-Thafriya and al-Hamra checkpoints yesterday, as well as Qal'et…

A UN security resolution is to be tabled on Tuesday night by Britain, France and the US to test whether Russian support for a proposal to force Syria to make public its chemical weapons programme is serious or a "ruse", David Cameron has…

(Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied that he was behind a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people and said evidence was not conclusive that there had been such an attack, CBS reported on Sunday on its news program…

The dead include: 22 civilians, 38 rebel fighters, 43 regular soldiers, 3 YPG fighters, 1 defected lieutenant, 12 unidentified rebel fighters, 21 combatants from the NDF and popular defence committees, 11 fighters from the ISIS,…