The United Nations' special envoy on children in war was in Syria for talks yesterday, as concern mounts over the rising child death toll in the country's bloody two-year conflict. Six children were among 29 people killed in a devastating army bombardment of five...

The prime minister's wife met some of those caught up in the two-year conflict during a visit to a refugee camp in neighbouring Lebanon in March. Citing senior government sources,  The Times reported she had since pushed for a bolder humanitarian response. But Downing Street said...

  A car bomb exploded outside the police headquarters in a town north of the Syrian capital, killing at least 13 people including 10 policemen, activists said Monday. The Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights said to AP the blast took place overnight in the town of Deir...

The Pakistani government denied BBC allegations that Pakistan Taliban had visited Syria to set up a base and to assess "the needs of the jihad". Pakistani Foreign ministry said on Monday that no  evidence  for what media outlets had circulated about a  base was set...