David Cameron and William Hague have held high-level international talks to ratchet up pressure on Syrian President Bashar Assad in the wake of the ma...
Britain is to push for a "strong international response" to reports of a massacre of civilians by Syrian forces, Foreign Secretary William Hague has s...
Syria was rocked by a large explosion on Sunday just 500 feet from a convoy carrying Major General Robert Mood – the head of the UN Mission there ...
One of the biggest challenges to understanding events in Syria over the past year has been the lack of access granted to the international media.
Western diplomats are appalled that the deadline for the withdrawal of Syrian government forces from towns has come and gone without any change in the situation on the ground.
David Cameron has accepted that Afghanistan will not be "a perfect democracy" by the time British troops return home, but said that the public wants t...
Marie Colvin's death has highlighted the dangers facing journalists in armed conflict, but the threats to journalists worldwide are much broader.
The heady optimism of 2011 and the rapid fall of the regimes of Gaddafi, Mubarak and Ben Ali, has been replaced by disappointment in the new military leadership in Cairo, deep divisions in Libya and of course the continued brutal clampdown against protestors in Syria.
British journalist Paul Conroy is reported to be "in good spirits" after escaping from Syria but a French reporter may still be stranded in the besieg...
Attempts to evacuate two wounded journalists from the besieged city of Homs failed again on Monday night as ambulances carrying injured civilians left...
Ruthless Arab dictators have terrified the people around them to the point of total sycophancy, where praise and subservience to the "dear" leader are...
William Hague accused the Syrian regime of "cold-blooded cynicism" as the reported deaths of 200 people in one of the bloodiest attacks of the uprisin...
Foreign Secretary William Hague has called on the United Nations to support moves led by the Arab League to bring a peaceful resolution to unrest in S...
An armed ‘terrorist’ group has blown up a gas pipeline. The attack was on a pipeline carrying gas from the central province of Homs to an are...
Forces loyal to President Assad have exchanged fire with rebels in Damascus in an effort to retake parts of the capital. Reported by the BBC, the ...
Saudi Arab has withdrawn from the Arab League monitoring mission in Syria amid accusations that the regime has continued to carry out violence against...
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has blamed an "external conspiracy" for the increasingly violent pro-democracy protests that have spread across the c...
A bomb blast on a bus in the Syrian capital Damascus has left up to 25 people dead and 46 wounded, as the capital sees a surge in violence. Accord...
Ten anti-government protesters have reportedly been killed in clashes with Syrian security forces following a day of action across Syria. The Inde...
The Arab League has said it will be imposing further diplomatic and economic sanctions on Syria following a day of continued violence against proteste...
Syrian Army defectors say they launched a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a Baath Party building in Damascus on Sunday, in the first insurgent atta...
King Abdullah of Jordan has become the first Arab leader to publically state that Syrian President Bashar al Assad should step down. In an intervi...
The Syrian government is committing “crimes against humanity”, says a human rights group, urging the Arab League to suspend the country's membersh...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned Western powers that any intervention in Syria would cause an “earthquake” that would “burn the whole...
More than forty people are reported to have been killed as Syrian security forces cracked down on protests after Friday prayers in the cities of Homs,...
