Syrian President Bashar Assad has met Vladimir Putin at the Russian leader's summer residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

Hundreds of Syrians have gathered in the capital Damascus in support of their armed forces, which they say succeeded in confronting the unprecedented joint airstrikes by the West over the weekend.

Syrian president Bashar Assad still has up to three tons of chemical weapons, Israeli defence officials said.

America’s limited intervention won’t change the course of the Syrian war or temper Bashar al-Assad’s scorched earth policy against rebels and civilians, writes Mohamad Bazzi.

While the US missile assault on Syria will make Putin and Assad pause for thought, one of the consequences of the attack may be a boost for Islamic State, writes Leonid Bershidsky.

Evidence suggests Assad was behind this week’s chemical weapons attack. Leaders are saying it is a redline issue but Western powers are at a loss to respond, says Peter Apps

While most of the world has agreed to destroy these deadly weapons, the attack in Syria this week shows the urgency of the situation, writes Caroline Alexander

The world is doing little as the killing of civilians in Aleppo continues. Bernard-Henri Lévy argues that it is now time for the European Union to act

The US president has been condemned for not intervening early and removing the Assad regime, but such military action was disastrous in Iraq and Libya, says Christopher R Hill     

UN Security Council members have approved a resolution outlining a peace process for Syria involving talks by representatives of the Damascus government and the opposition.

The United States escalated its fight against the Islamic State in Syria, pledging the first open deployment of military boots on the ground.

Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive on behalf of President Bashar al-Assad’s government, a further sign of the rapid internationalisation of a civil war in which every major country in the region has a stake.

The British Prime Minister David Cameron says Syria's President Assad should face an international court.

The United States will have to negotiate with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad for a political transition in Syria and is exploring ways to pressure him into agreeing to talks, US Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News in an interview.