Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons against rebel fighters, the Israeli military's top intelligence analyst has claimed. Brigadier...

Human rights campaigners have warned that Syrian opposition fighters are conducting summary killings, using child soldiers, sectarian violence and com...

The head of Syria's military police has defected and reportedly fled to Turkey. Lt Gen Abulaziz al-Shalal announced his decision speaking in a vid...

UN officials observing a fragile ceasefire in Syria reportedly came under fire on Tuesday in the northern region of Idlib. Video footage has been r...

Syria is not complying with a crucial ceasefire plan, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has admitted. The peace plan, coordinated by international e...

Alleged video footage of a Syrian activist being buried alive for supplying video clips to newspapers has surfaced online. The clip, which could no...

Security forces in the Syrian city of Hama dragged an old woman into the street, hit her and shot her dead with two of her children hours after a visi...

UN observers were surrounded by protesters who were subsequently fired on by government troops during their mission to monitor a fractured truce in th...

An uneasy ceasefire in Syria was reportedly in place on Thursday morning after a week of intense violence in which hundreds of people are said to have...

The Syrian army has said it will suspend operations at dawn on Thursday as part of a ceasefire deal agreed with international envoy Kofi Annan. "Af...

International envoy Kofi Annan has insisted the Syrian government will meet the deadline for a ceasefire. Annan, acting as special envoy for the Un...

International envoy Kofi Annan said that the violence in Syria must end "with no preconditions" after President Assad's regime continued shelling resi...

Syrian government forces appear to have ignored a proposed UN-sponsored ceasefire deadline and have shelled towns and villages across the country, act...

Foreign Secretary William Hague today welcomed the United Nations' demand that President Bashar Assad pull back troops amid continuing violence with o...

Syrian protesters fighting President Bashar al-Assad have a new tool in their arsenal: an internet meme. Buried in the revelations revealed by a le...

Syrian activists using video to depict the gory reality of battle rarely leave anything on the cutting room floor. Whether it's footage of furious ...

Syrian forces are "systematically" torturing children held in detention, the UN human rights commissioner, Navi Pillay, has told the BBC. Reports h...

The United Nations Security Council has agreed a full statement on the humanitarian disaster in Syria for the first time since August last year. Ex...

Armed Syrian opposition groups have been accused of "serious human rights abuses" by an international watchdog, even as government forces continue to ...

29 March was the day the mask fell and Syria saw the true evil face of its 'Democratic' leader. 29 March was the day my eyes were opened. It was the start of this revolution for me. 29 March was a sad day indeed.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has announced plans for elections in May, even as international condemnation of the violence committed against civili...

A young boy lies in the dirt, shot by apparent sniper fire. Another boy attempts to lift him onto the curb and pull him to safety. Before he can...

Foreign Secretary William Hague has urged Russia to join diplomatic efforts to end the violence in Syria as he warned the United Nations had "failed" ...

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...