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BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on developments in Syria (all times local):6:15 p.m.The global chemical weapons watchdog says a team of inspectors has visited the Syrian town of Douma to collect sampl...

Syrian state media says Islamic State militants have agreed to give up their last pocket in Damascus.

The U.S. gained an ally in Baghdad after overthrowing Saddam Hussein in 2003, but an alliance of Iran, Iraq, Russia and Syria is growing stronger.

In their April 14 statement, the patriarchates of Antioch and all the East for the Greek Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox, and Greek-Melkite Catholics said, "The allegations of the USA and other countries that the Syrian army is using chemical weapons and that Syria is a country that owns and uses this

Close to the Syrian regime which it has always viewed as a rampart against the Islamist threat, local church leaders have rarely been so unequivocal. Three patriarchs — two of them Orthodox and the other Catholic — have co-signed a statement strongly condemning the Western air strikes against

The Trump administration is seeking to raise an army of Arab soldiers from Syria's neighboring countries that would take over for American troops and help

Even though US intelligence agencies did not have absolute certainty Syria's regime had used the nerve agent sarin against civilians, the Trump administration still felt there was enough evidence to justify retaliatory strikes last Friday, several int

Syria's U.N. ambassador said a United Nations security team traveled to the Syrian town of Douma ahead of a planned visit by global chemical weapons experts on Wednesday to look into a suspected poison gas attack that sparked a U.S.-led retaliatory st

Lawmakers emerged from a classified administration briefing expressing concern about administration policy on Syria and the legal justification for last week's military strikes against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

This is the story of a town called Douma, a ravaged, stinking place of smashed apartment blocks - and of an underground clinic whose images of suffering allowed three of the Western wor

'We live in the world where propaganda seems to be more important than the reality of what is really going on.'

The White House said the U.S. mission in Syria has not changed, reiterating that President Donald Trump wants American troops home "as quickly as possible."

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis told the faithful in St. Peter's Square that he is "deeply disturbed" by the international community's failure to come up with a common response to the crisis in Syria... The post Pope 'deeply dis

On Sunday, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley appeared on CBS' "Face the Nation." When host Margaret Brennan asked Haley if Russia and Iran will see consequences for supporting Assad, Haley replied:

In a television interview on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron claimed that France has convinced President Trump that it is "necessary" to remain in Syria "long-term," per the AFP . The backdrop: Earlier this month, the White House

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday that U.S. troops will remain in Syria until Washington accomplishes certain key goals.

A declassified report by the French government presents evidence that the Syrian government carried out a chemical attack against civilians last week, The Hill reported....

The official said that contrary to widespread belief, Assad is not on the cusp of defeating rebels after more than seven years of civil war. "In reality, first of all, the Assad regime is not winning strategically," the official argued. "If you look at the situation in Syria, they control about

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TEL AVIV -- A "violent explosion" was heard in the southern section of Aleppo, Syria in an area where Iranian forces were present, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Saturday.