Syria

He lost 25 members of his family: his wife, his nine month old twins: pictures of Syrian shopkeeper Abdul-Hamid Alyoussef carrying their bodies have been shared around the world – a symbol of the horror of the suspected chemical attack in Idlib.

Conservative MP and member of the Commons foreign affairs committee, Nadhim Zahawi, and Dr Ghanem Tayara of Union of Medical Care and Relief Organisations.

The world has been swift to condemn the Syria attack, describing it as a war crime. Theresa May said, if proven, it would be “further evidence of the barbarism of the Syrian regime”.

A massacre, a war crime, a reprehensible act. Leaders around the world have condemned the alleged nerve agent attack in Syria, which killed dozens of people, many of them children, and left hundreds more injured.

A Briton who was a leading developer of the online currency Bitcoin and projected as a future billionaire, has been under police investigation for going to Syria to fight against the Islamic State group.

US-backed Syrian fighters say they’ve cut the main road south from the city of Raqqa, a stronghold of the extremist Islamic State group.

The photographs of her 3-year-old nephew – his body washed up on a Turkish beach – became a symbol of the plight of Syrian refugees around the world.

The British man who Isis claim carried out a suicide attack in Iraq earlier this week, ‘may have’ used taxpayers’ money to fund his extremist activities, his wife told Channel 4 News.

We asked the Home Office and a number of Conservative members of the Home Affairs Select Committee to come on the programme but nobody was available. We are joined from Central lobby in parliament by Labour MP Stella Creasy.

“We cannot withdraw from our long and proud history of helping the most vulnerable.” The words of the Archbishop of Canterbury today on the escalating row over the decision to stop bringing in lone child refugees under the so-called Dubs Amendment. Only 350 of the expected 3000 children have been helped so far – sparking…

Amnesty International says that up to 13,000 people have been secretly executed in a Syrian jail.

French cameraman Olivier Sarbil spent six weeks with an elite unit of the Iraqi special forces as they fought to recapture the city that fell to IS, also known as Daesh, two and a half years ago.

A British man has been killed fighting the Islamic State group in Syria.Twenty-year-old Ryan Lock, a former chef  with no military experience, travelled to the country to fight alongside Kurdish militia known as the YPG.

Photographer Issa Touma watched and filmed from a window as young, armed men dragged sandbags to block the end of the narrow road alongside his Aleppo apartment. It was August 2012 and the beginning of the uprising that turned into a bloody civil war. Now his footage, compiled under the title “9 Days from my…

The Syrian army has announced a nationwide ceasefire beginning at midnight tonight – paving the way for talks aimed at ending the conflict.