FIFA Ballon d'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo must continue to maintain his exceptional high standards in order to be classed among the sport's legends, according to Brazil  great Pele who compared the Portuguese to Eusebio. Portugal  and Real Madrid forward Ronaldo beat...

Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah Monday appealed for donations to a nationwide fund-raising campaign to support the Syrian people facing a serious humanitarian crisis due the country’s civil war. The emir issued “a distress call to citizens, men and...

Britain on Monday accused Syria's government of committing "yet another war crime" by spraying civilian areas with barrel bombs - oil drums or cylinders which are packed with explosives and metal fragments and dropped from aircraft. Human rights groups say the improvised devices have...

Dozens of people in the southern suburbs of Damascus have died of starvation after spending months living on scraps of food, trapped in one of the worst sieges of the civil war, activists claim. For more than a year, nothing has been allowed in or out of a number of...