Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has visited the former rebel stronghold of Homs, the scene of fierce fighting with government forces that left hundre...

Syrian troops have reportedly crossed into Lebanon in armoured cars to battle armed opposition fighters with rocket-propelled grenades. The news a...

I am broken because I am outside watching my family, my friends and my city Homs be ripped apart through shelling, theft of homes, rape and murder. In the last two weeks I have had many from my small village executed or arrested. Some tortured in wedding halls while others were blown up once gathered in a home.

Syrian tanks have killed four people in the devastated city of Homs even as the UN and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan prepared to visit the coun...

A suburb of the devastated city of Homs in Syria has become the scene of another massacre, activists have reported. More than 50 people have been r...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has suffered his most high-profile defection, with deputy oil minister Abdo Hussameddin quitting his post. In an a...

United Nations humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has visited Baba Amr in Homs, becoming the first international official to enter the embattled Syrian d...

UN humanitarian chief Valerie Amos has entered the ruins of the devestated Baba Amr district of Homs with the Syrian Red Crescent aid agency. Amos ...

More than a thousand Syrians have fled to Lebanon after weeks of attacks on the town of Homs and other areas. The Associated Press said that as man...

Aid agencies are still unable to distribute vital medical supplies in the Baba Amr area of Homs, Syria, amid accusations of executions and torture tak...

A lot has been written about the human catastrophe currently unfolding in Syria, horrific photos assail us daily, politicians drop sound-bites condemning the violence, but in a few heart-felt sentences the injured photographer Paul Conroy eloquently and dramatically cut through it all. "It's not a war," he insisted. "It's a massacre." Speaking from the safety of his hospital bed in London, having been smuggled from Homs to Lebanon earlier in the week by Syrian rebels, Conroy pleaded with the world to act now or regret forever the atrocities being committed...

A British journalist injured in Syria has urged the world to help the people of Homs to prevent a "massacre beyond measure." Speaking to Sky News f...

A government mortar attack in the Syrian town of Rastan has killed 12 people, including five children, AFP has reported. Extremely graphic and dist...

The Syrian army has stopped the Red Cross from entering the Baba Amr region of the Syrian city of Homs to distribute aid. ICRC President Jakob Kell...

The grim discovery of a man who had been shot in the head with his hands tied behind his back near the Syrian capital Damascus led to a funeral protes...

The Red Cross is to be allowed access to the Baba Amr region of Homs, after President Assad's regime indicated they would let foreign aid into the cou...

Syrian opposition fighters and civilians trapped in Homs are said to be "preparing for a massacre". Activists reported people "recording their last...

Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin, who was killed in Syria last week, died trying to retrieve her shoes so she could escape an army bombardm...

Syrian activists have said they will "fight until the last person" as columns of tanks and armoured vehicles prepared to mount a ground assault on the...

Dramatic new pictures have emerged of the moments after an oil line exploded in the embattled Syrian town of Homs. Activists say the city has been...

As the bombardment continues in Homs, one activist in the district of Baba Amr told the Huffington Post UK that he fears for his life. "I am not s...

As the bombardment continues in Homs, one activist in the district of Baba Amr told The Huffington Post UK that he is "not safe at all". Omar, a 2...