Thousands of children have been killed in the Syria uprising since March 2011, according to a new global UN report on children and armed conflict. Calling the toll "unbearable", the study said government forces and rebels were using boys and girls as "suicide bombers or human shields". In...

Among the consequences facing U.S. President  Barack Obama  if he decides against arming Syria's rebels is that Arab and European states may step in more aggressively, perhaps further fracturing rebel forces. Having watched government forces seize the strategic town of Qusair...

 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that spillover from  Syria 's civil war threatens a 40-year-old cease-fire between Syria and  Israel  in the disputed  Golan Heights and recommended bolstering the vulnerable  U.N.  peacekeeping force there by more...

  The tragedy as following; ''Your son has been arrested and tortured until death, and then they asked you in cold blood to take his body from the hospital. Oh how lucky am I? at least I know where I can bury him. The broken-hearted mother said about Hussam Khayat, 23...