Iraqi Kurdistan has asked oil companies operating in the autonomous region for $50 million to help deal with an influx of refugees from  Syria  that has put a strain on its resources. Around 200,000 refugees, many of them from Syria's own Kurdish minority, have poured into the...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said a Russia-U.S. deal to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons was an important first step and called for a political solution to address the mounting death toll in Syria. Fabius made the comments to reporters in Beijing after...

  Activists of the embattaled city of homs say U.N reports have confirmed 8 massacres only in Syria whilst the massacres of the revolution capital are forgotten. After 30 months of killing, massacres, bombarding and shelling it is hard to find any area or neiborhood in Homs...

  Reporting from the Syrian city of Homs, FRANCE 24 finds the abandoned Sunni district of Baba Amr in ruins, while life is limping back to normal in the loyalist neighbourhood of Zahra under the careful watch of Syrian troops.   Standing on a street that has been...