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Pope appeals for world to remember Syria war victims

Pope Francis warned Friday that the millions of people affected by the Syria crisis risk being forgotten because of the "globalisation of indifference" toward the conflict. The international community risks "forgetting the daily victims, the unspeakable suffering, the thousands...

In Damascus, reminders of lurking war on the dinner table

DAMASCUS, May 30 (Reuters) - As Syria approaches a surreal presidential election in the midst of civil war, the capital has avoided the worst of the conflict but reminders are increasingly coming out the water taps and appearing on the dinner table, to the dismay of Damascenes....

Syria activists detail 2014 deaths by barrel bombs

BEIRUT (AP) — Crude bombs dropped by Syrian government forces on rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo have killed nearly 2,000 people so far this year, an activist group said Friday. The grim figure is the latest addition to the deadly tally from Syria's civil war,...