At least 62 people, including an unknown number of children, died when barrel bombs were dropped from the Syrian army helicopters in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday according to the Syrian Revolution General Council (SRGC) .  The death toll...

    Journalists and activists loyal to opposing sides of Syria’s civil war have managed something the negotiators at this peace conference haven’t – talking to each other. Inside the wood-paneled negotiating room at the United Nations’ “Geneva II” talks,...

Not so long ago Noura al-Ameer was being beaten and subjected to electric shocks in a Syrian prison. Today, she sits across from the regime that put her there, hoping diplomacy can end her country's suffering. "It was as if I was seeing the faces of the killers, the bombers, the...

The job was too much for Kofi Annan. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former U.N. secretary general - hardly known as a quitter - threw in the towel in August 2012, declaring that serving as international mediator for Syria was impossible as long as global powers were hopelessly divided....