The Syrian National Coalition  has expressed “deep concern”  over the fate of more than 200 men, evacuated from the Old City of Homs earlier this month, who are still detained by Syrian authorities. United Nations observers say 335 men were held among the 1,400...

Video — too graphic to be posted — testifies to the  horrific deaths of children  in a bombing by Syrian forces of a school in Muzayrib in Daraa Province. Other footage illustrates the brutality of the attack. ( EA world view)

Syrian government forces seized a village inhabited by President Bashar al-Assad's minority community from Islamist fighters in a central province on Tuesday, state media said. Insurgents including fighters from Ahrar al-Sham, Jund al-Aqsa and other Islamist groups had taken...

It is an everyday occurrence at border crossings out of Syria, but for four-year-old Marwan, it must have been terrifying. After being temporarily separated from his family at the remote Hagallat crossing on Sunday, he was found by staff from the UN's refugee agency. Andrew...