Is the battle for Syria entering its final phase?
President Assad is bombing his own people daily, yet the rebels are gaining ground. With another key official defecting to the west, how long can the regime hold on?
The battle for Damascus may have begun, but Syria has the biggest arsenal of chemical weapons in the Middle East – and what is to stop them being used if they fall into the wrong hands?
President Assad is bombing his own people daily, yet the rebels are gaining ground. With another key official defecting to the west, how long can the regime hold on?
International flights to Damascus are grounded as fighting intensifies in the Syrian capital.
Syrian activists say 10 children have been killed by a cluster bomb dropped from a government jet in the village of Deir al-Asafir east of Damascus.
So bad are conditions at the refugee camp in Atmeh, northern Syria that some people have returned to the deadly shelling and mayhem in the south of the country.
The government’s analysis on Syria looks to be changing from “there’s nowt much we can do” to “we should explore what can be done to limit Syria’s wider impact”.
Alex Thomson captures the challenging conditions facing thousands of refugees in Atmeh, northern Syria.
Turkey’s vow to stay out of the Syrian civil war looks increasingly under threat, as renewed attacks by the Syrian president’s air force move perilously close to the Turkish border.
An encampment of Syrian government forces has been targeted by two suicide bomb attacks today, with reports that dozens have been killed or injured.
An encampment of Syrian government forces has been targeted by two suicide bomb attacks today, with reports that dozens have been killed or injured.
The United Nations warns that the number of people within Syrian needing humanitarian aid will soar from 2.5 million to around 4 million by early next year.
A video that appears to show Syrian rebels killing soldiers who had surrendered probably constitutes a war crime that should be prosecuted, the United Nations human rights office says.
Aid workers trying to bring supplies and medicines to Syrians affected by conflict in the country face huge challenges and the issue is political, not humanitarian, hears Lindsey Hilsum.
The Syrian transport minister has described the Turkish decision to force a Syrian passenger plane to land as “air piracy”. The plane was travelling from Russia to Damascus.
Two people arrested at London’s Heathrow airport last night are being questioned over the abduction of a British photographer, Scotland Yard says.