United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has urged world powers to organise Syrian peace talks “as soon as possible”, to seek an end to a c(...)

Russia has shipped advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led (...)

A human rights group says it has found documents and physical evidence indicating Syrians were arbitrarily detained and tortured in government (...)

A video of a Syrian rebel commander cutting the heart out of a soldier and biting into is emblematic of a civil war that has rapidly descended (...)

Damascus yesterday denied involvement in twin bombings in southern Turkey that killed 50 people and injured 155 on Saturday, a(...)

Turkey said today it believed fighters loyal to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad were behind twin car bombings that killed 46 people in a Turki(...)

Britain said yesterday it was “very likely” the Syrian government had used chemical weapons, and Turkey announced it was stepping up testing of(...)

The United States does not want Russia to sell weapons to Syria and has opposed transfers of missile systems to the country in the past because(...)

The Syrian army captured a strategic southern town from rebel fighters today after a ferocious two-month bombardment, in an advance likely to r(...)

Syrian rebels claimed yesterday to be holding four Filipino UN peacekeepers on the ceasefire line between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan (...)