Three men including an American have been charged with plotting to illegally export lab equipment and chemical warfare devices to Syria, according to an unsealed indictment.
France wants to deter youths from fighting with foreign backed militant groups in Syria's civil war, and is planning a series of tough-love measures that answer the pleas of parents and seek to protect the nation from battle-hardened returnees.
Almost 3.5 million civilians in Syria have virtually no access to desperately needed humanitarian aid and people are dying needlessly every day as violence and extremism escalate and the risk of sectarian violence grows, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday.
Syria has declared it was looking ahead to the dismantling of the international mission overseeing the destruction of the conflict-torn country's chemical arsenal, though Western officials said they want the team to keep working.
The Netherlands has warned that militants returning from Syria posed a security threat to Europe and said two Dutch citizens had carried out suicide attacks in Syria and Iraq in the past six months and about 100 had fought in Syria in 2013.
The head of Syria's main opposition group has asked Saudi Arabia to increase its support for the so-called Free Syrian Army, his advisor says.
Syrian army units have repelled armed militant groups in several areas of the country, killing and injuring a number of their members and destroying their hideouts, weapons and equipment.
A communist lawmaker has registered as the first challenger for the Syrian presidency in an upcoming election, the speaker of parliament says.
The Syrian troops have advanced in the central city of Homs, killing several militants there, Al-Alam reports.
Mock executions, hunger, thirst, cold, beatings a makeshift chess game, and a “surreal” snowball fight with their jailers.