Bashar Al Assad

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin some interests and goals, but it will be hard to formalize them or even package them into informal bargains that both parties would hold up

France will launch attacks if proof emerges that the Syrian regime has used banned chemical weapons against its civilians, says President Emmanuel Macron

President Vladimir Putin ordered 'a significant part' of Russia's military contingent in Syria to withdraw, saying Moscow and Damascus had achieved their aim of destroying the Islamic State

The refugee crisis has become a permanent scourge blighting Europe's soul and brewing future trouble

US issues a warning that president Bashar al-Assad risks paying 'a heavy price' if Syria plans for another chemical weapons attack

A large convoy of buses set out from the govt-held towns of Fuaa and Kafraya in Idlib province, carrying 3,000 people to the Syrian rebel-held transit point of Rashidin near Aleppo

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town was a fabrication to justify a US military strike, in an exclusive AFP interview.

Sean Spicer apologized for making an 'inappropriate' comparison to the Holocaust about Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons after Jewish groups rebuked him

US defence secretary Jim Mattis has asserted that America's top priority in Syria remains fighting the Islamic State militant group

Vladimir Putin regarded the US action in Syria as 'aggression against a sovereign nation' on a 'made-up pretext' and as a cynical attempt to distract the world from civilian deaths in Iraq