Chemical weapons have killed hundreds of people since the start of Syria’s civil war, with the UN blaming three attacks on the Syrian government and a fourth on the Islamic State group.

The numbers behind Syria’s civil war are staggering: Well over 100,000 people have died, ... Now, that regime stands accused by the West of unleashing chemical weapons to kill its own people.

The chemical weapons attack in Syria on April 4 is not the first. ABC News. Video. Live. Shows. Shop. ... both sides in the Syrian Civil War traded accusations over a gas attack that killed dozens ...

The residents of Khan Sheikhoun probably thought they were in for just another ordinary day of civil war when they woke up early in the morning of April 4 to the whine of approaching Syrian Air ...

As Syria marks five full years of civil war this month, a new report claims chemical weapons have been used at least 161 times through the end of 2015 and caused 1,491 deaths. It says such attacks ...

24: The OPCW says Syria has handed over 92.5 percent of its chemical weapons, three days before a self-imposed cut-off of 27 on April, by which date Damascus aims to have its whole stockpile ...

Syria appears likely to meet Sunday's deadline for handing over its chemical arsenal. But President Bashar Assad hasn't been weakened. His forces currently have the upper hand in the civil war.

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was finally toppled after 13 years of civil war, having ruled Syria since 2000. The world's attention turns to Assad's unaccounted stockpile of chemical weapons.

Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons – probably nerve gas – in their fight against rebels trying to force out President Bashar al-Assad, the Israeli military’s top ...

But a U.S. military mission to destroy Syrian chemical weapons a decade ago could offer the White House some viable options. About a year and a half after the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, ...