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The BBC has seen video and eyewitness testimony that appears to corroborate allegations of chemical weapons' use in the Syrian town of Saraqeb.

CIA chief John Brennan 'was sent to Israel to prevent it from taking action on its own in Syria', according to reports in Israeli media.

For more than two years, the Syrian president has defied predictions that his downfall is imminent.

Most have fled to Jordan and Lebanon, but not have all been registered yet, meaning the true total is likely to be far higher, according to the UNHCR.

The Syrian city of Qusayr lies just 10 miles over the border from Aarsal in northern Lebanon.

Family members of Mohammed Aboud, chant slogans against the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army rebel group and the al-Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra during his funeral in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, May 17, 2013.

A joint U.S.-Russian push to bring together Syria's political opposition and representatives of President Bashar Assad's regime to negotiate a peaceful transition has given their work new urgency.

Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the agency's acting commissioner.

As the situation in Syria continues to deteriorate, threats to Israeli security increase - as do the chances for a military conflagration on the Syrian border.

President Barack Obama met Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday as world leaders scramble to find a way to ease Bashar al-Assad from power and end Syria's bloody civil war.

Radical Syrian opposition groups now in control of Aleppo and its surroundings have put in place a religious police, responsible for enforcing a strict form of Islamic rule.

A BBC correspondent who visited the northern town of Saraqeb was told by eyewitnesses that government helicopters had dropped at least two devices containing poisonous gas.

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The UN General Assembly voted to pass an Arab-backed draft resolution that strongly condemns the Assad government and embraces the political viability of the Syrian National Coalition.

Rebel fighters battled regime troops inside the walls of the sprawling central prison compound in Syria's largest city Wednesday, hours after blowing open the gate with twin car bombs in an attempted jailbreak, activists said.

Syrian rebels attacked the main prison in the northern city of Aleppo Wednesday with a pair of car bombs in an attempt to free hundreds of regime opponents believed to be held in the facility, activists said.

Rebel fighters battled regime troops inside the walls of the sprawling central prison compound in Syria's largest city Wednesday, hours after blowing open the gate with twin car bombs in an attempted jailbreak, activists said.

The prospects of a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis is still a long way off.

As President Barack Obama struggles to define America's position in Syria, events threaten to overtake his deliberations.

In recent weeks considerable public attention has turned to questions of whether government forces in Syria have used chemical weapons.