Four Palestinian refugees have been detained in Sri Lanka for more than two weeks and risk being expelled back to Syria, according to a human rights group. The Palestinian League for Human Rights - Syria says the four men were stopped at Sri Lanka's international airport on...

(Reuters) - A top U.N. aid official, frustrated by obstacles to humanitarian aid in Syria , asked on Friday if a million people needed to be killed and neighboring states collapse before the world would take action to stop the conflict. John Ging, director of operations at...

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BEIRUT (AP) — Two years ago, it seemed almost inevitable that Syrian President Bashar Assad would be toppled. Despite a fierce military crackdown, people were still taking to the streets in exuberant anti-government protests and rebels were pressing their fight deeper into the...