Syria is the deadliest place for journalists, who are deliberately targeted by both the government and rebel groups, according to a new human rights r...

This is not a simple war, and there are no simple aid solutions. As the UN marks the registration of the millionth Syrian refugee this week, having fled material destitution on top of living in constant fear, it's clear that the status quo cannot be an option.

When Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin and photojournalist Remi Ochlik were killed in Homs, Syria, the bloody conflict had regularly been the front p...

Syria has made an official complaint to the United Nations over an alleged Israeli airstrike on the border it shares with Lebanon. A US official t...

Every morning on the way to work I would see new buildings that have been hit by bombs - and I live in a relatively quiet neighbourhood where you only hear scattered shelling and shooting in the distance.

Syrian fighter jets have struck suburbs in Damascus for the first time during the 19-month conflict, which has now left 36,000 people dead, according ...

Clashes in Lebanon's capital Beirut and the northern city of Tripoli have left seven people dead and dozens more injured as the army warned of "unprec...

Lebanese soldiers have fired bullets in the air and launched tear-gas at mourners attending the funeral of a murdered intelligence chief in Beirut ami...

A massive car bomb has exploded next to a police station in a central Damascus, killing at least ten people according to early reports. The blast h...

Fighting continues to rage in Syria amid claims the government is targeting hospitals in Aleppo. Syria's second city is one of the key battleground...

Cities hit by last summer's riots have fallen down a league table of the best places in the world for living conditions, a new study has revealed. ...

Syria's prime minister has reportedly defected to Jordan with his family after being smuggled across the border, government officials there said on Mo...

Human Rights Watch have accused the Free Syria Army of committing potential war crimes as videos emerged of rebels "executing" supporters of Preside...

Violence continued to rage in Aleppo as well as Damascus on Sunday as clashes between Syrian rebel groups and regime forces tore through the country's...

A bomb blast which reportedly killed three senior Syrian officials, including the president's brother-in-law, has sent the country's conflict "spinnin...

A bomb blast in the Syrian capital Damascus has killed the brother-in-law of President Bashar al-Assad and the country's intelligence chief, state TV ...

A poster produced by a group of activists in a northwest town in Syria has gone viral with its satirical attack on the country's leader Bashar al-Assa...

Those who say that Russia "is saving" Bashar al-Assad are wrong. I would like to reiterate that it is the Syrian people themselves who choose the political system and leadership of their country. We are not trying to whitewash the multiple mistakes and miscalculations made by Damascus, including the use of force against peaceful demonstrations at the beginning of the crisis.

A group of Islamist extremists have claimed responsibility for a twin bombing in Syria's capital Damascus on Thursday, which killed 55 people and inju...

Two massive explosions have rocked the Syrian capital Damascus with state media reporting dozens of people dead or injured. The scale of the explos...

An apparent bomb attack in the Syrian city of Dera'a wounded six soldiers moments after a convoy passed by carrying the head of the United Nations obs...