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....

The Assad military continues to bombard Darayya, southwest of Damascus, amid ongoing fighting between regime forces and insurgents for control of the suburb — activists report at least 22 bombs, including “barrel bombs”, dropped today. There seems to be a massive push to...

Ahmed Odeh was watching a YouTube video about the abysmal conditions in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk, near Syria's war-torn capital Damascus. A small girl in the video was crying and shouting, "I'm hungry, I'm hungry." After watching the video, "I had the idea to make a...

 The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) is upgrading some of its BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) to enhance their survivability during counter-insurgency operations. While numerous improvised protective measures have been seen on SAA armour over the past two years, a...