This is the story of how the   Syrian war   reached out 5,000 miles across the globe and destroyed at least 29 Lebanese lives in the Indian Ocean. It is a story of tragic irony; the destitute Lebanese families who wanted to live in Australia...

  I've spent much of the last week in Antakya, an ancient city, known to Byzantine Christians as Antioch, which now serves as a bivouac for Syrian rebel fighters and a jumping-off point for journalists and humanitarian actors working in Syria, which lies 20...

A mother and her twin girls have been stabbed by knifes until death by the Assad-backed militia, Shabiha, in Qabo area, when a family of four were heading Lebanon two days ago, their bodies were found in the military hospital of Homs, the Syrian Network for Human Rights reported...

When radical Islamists tore down a cross and hoisted a black flag above a church in the northern Syrian city of Raqqah last week, it underscored the increasingly hostile environment for the country’s Christians. Although Syria is majority Sunni Muslim, it is one of the most religiously and...