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 month ago Obama administration officials promised to deliver arms and ammunition to the Syrian rebels in the hope of reversing the tide of a war that had turned against an embattled opposition.   But interviews with American, Western and Middle...

I raq's foreign minister has told a pan-Arab newspaper that his country is unable to stop neighboring Iran from sending weapons to Syria through its airspace.  The London-based "Asharq al-Awsat" daily quoted Hoshyar Zebari as saying: "We reject and condemn the transfer of weapons...

  National Defense Army, pro-Assad's militia, said 200 fighters were killed since the beginning of the offensive, reliable source told Zaman Alwasl. Assad's troops fought with rebels in Homs in a battle seen as crucial to the Assad's attempts to drive a wedge between opposition-held...