Three Syrian businessmen have been linked to the purchase of the explosives that caused the Beirut blast last August. The link has been made in a documentary aired by Al-Jadeed on Tuesday. Open-source information on the British government's Companies House website, cited in the documentary, shows that dual Russian-Syrian citizens George Haswani and brothers Imad and Mudalal Khuri have...

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Rebel-held enclave near Damascus attacked from multiple fronts, hours after Security Council calls for 30-day truce.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with CARE Country Director Wouter Schaap. The humanitarian organization is ramping up its efforts in Syria where thousands have been displaced by ISIS' presence, the country's civil war and other fighting.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed in June that the agent used in the attack was sarin. On Thursday, the OPCW said it was sure that the Syrian regime carried it out.