Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah accused Bashar al-Assad's regime of committing "systematic crimes" against people in Syria. Al-Attiyah also blamed the international community for not putting an immediate end to the daily...

Desperate civilians in a swathe of Syria from Aleppo in the north to the southern border are largely out of reach of aid workers, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday. Throughout the country, the wounded are often denied medical treatment by either...

Syrians called it the "bride of the revolution". The eastern city of Raqqa was swept by celebrations after residents woke up one morning in March to see the last batch of forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad leaving. Believing a new era of freedom had arrived, they promised to...

Armed with machine guns, black-clad al Qaeda fighters drove their pick-ups calmly into the northern Syrian town and took over its imposing agriculture ministry building. They beheaded a sniper from a rival rebel unit, displayed his head in the main square and put roadblocks on major...