Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday it was premature to say whether Moscow would grant asylum to embattled Syrian leader Bashar Assad, who had made "many mistakes." "You know I believe that it is premature to discuss this," Putin said in the second half of a two-part interview...

 The U.N. Security Council discussed the besieged towns of Syria after reports emerged that tens of thousands of civilians have been trapped for months without supplies and are starving to death. The meeting on Monday was called by New Zealand, Spain and France in response to the reports...

Syria's opposition co-ordinator Riad Hijab accused Russia of killing dozens of children after a bombing raid on Monday and said such action meant the opposition could not negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad's government. Earlier the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that at...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- 17 aid trucks on Monday have entered for embattled al-Waer neighborhood in the central city of Homs, a move had been scheduled in the U.N.-brokered deal reached last month between rebels and the Syrian regime, activists said. Simultaneously, aid convoys have entered...