At long last anti-aircraft weapons are getting through to the rebels. The Free Syrian Army fighters have recently made significant successes on the ground and managed to shoot down five fighter jets including a military helicopter in the space of two days.

The violent struggle between the Syrian government and opposition forces risks tearing the country apart and spilling over its borders to spread secta...

Veteran diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi will replace Kofi Annan as special envoy to Syria, in what the the French ambassador dubbed "the impossible mission"....

The Red Cross has declared the situation in Syria a civil war. "We are now talking about a non-international armed conflict in the country," ICRC s...

The killing of 200 people, most of them civilians, in the Syrian village of Tremseh has been condemned as "appalling" by the international community. ...

Kofi Annan has restarted the UN's attempt to end the violence in Syria by calling for the Assad regime to relinquish some of its power and form a 'unity government' with the opposition.

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.

Syria is on the edge of full-scale civil war following the latest violence in the country, United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon warned. Spe...

Military intervention in Syria would have to take place on a much larger scale than the operations in Libya, William Hague said on Friday. The fore...

Foreign Secretary William Hague will hold talks with Syrian opposition groups as the government seeks to maintain international pressure on Bashar al-...

Kofi Annan, the UN's envoy to Syria, has warned that the country has reached a "tipping point" after the government was accused of massacring of 108 p...

Bashar Al Assad must be rubbing his hands with glee. His heavily armed security forces and henchmen are killing the Syrian people right under the noses of the UN observers and the noses and ears of the silent witnesses Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-Moon. The UN and NATO are unwittingly providing cover for the massacres in Syria.

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...

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...

A Syrian opposition activist has raised the flag of independence in Damascus as a fragile ceasefire came into force, more than a year after a brutal c...

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...