The United Nations has appealed for a record $6.5 billion for Syria and its neighbours to help 16 million people, many of them hungry or homeless victims of a conflict that has lasted 33 months with no end in sight. The Syrian appeal accounted for half of an overall...

Assad airstrikes have used barrel bombs for the second day on rebel-held areas of Syria's second city of Aleppo, activists said. At least 125 people killed and injured scores of others on bloody Sunday, Al Jazeera's reporter in the northern city reported.  Residents on...

A Syrian toddler died Sunday when a fire ripped through the family tent in a refugee camp in southern Lebanon, a security official told AFP.   "Mahmud al-Arfan, who was 18 months old, was burned alive when the tent where his family lived caught fire," the official...

The first United Nations aid flight from Iraq to Syria took off on Sunday after being delayed for several days due to bad weather, an AFP journalist said. The plane departed the Arbil airport in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region around 3:30 pm (1230 GMT), and was expected to arrive in...