Middle East

Beirut: The Syrian army started shelling a militant enclave south of Damascus on Tuesday in preparation for an operation to retake the area, a commander in...

Damascus/The Hague: The United States accused Russia on Monday of blocking international inspectors from reaching the site of a suspected poison gas attack...

Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he had not meant to signal a change in the US position on Syria, after the White House rebuffed his...

Dhahran (Saudi Arabia): Arab League leaders on Sunday condemned the "criminal" use of chemical weapons in Syria and called for an international...

Zurich: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for a resumption of Syrian peace talks, which took place in Vienna in 2015, to halt the bloodshed in...

Moscow/Damascus: Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Sunday that further Western attacks on Syria would bring chaos to world affairs, while signs...

London/Beirut: Western powers will study "options" if Syria's government again uses chemical weapons, but nothing is planned as yet,...

Washington/Beirut: Western powers said on Saturday their missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria's chemical weapons programme, but the restrained...

United Nations: The United Nations Security Council failed to adopted a Russian-drafted resolution on Saturday that would have condemned "the...