Each day the news of Syria gets worse. As a human rights activist told Oxfam, "the situation is hell. In areas under attack, people do not have enough food." Earlier this week, the Syrian Red Cross finally entered Baba Amr with Baroness Amos, but members of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who have been attempting to visit Baba Amr since Friday, remained barred from the neighbourhood. Like everyone else, I feel horror and frustration at the world's seeming inability to stop the killing and help those in need.

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...

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...