US Secretary of State John Kerry has hit out the "brutality" of the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad for its sustained barrel bomb campaign. In a written statement released on Tuesday, Kerry said use of the bombs was reminding the world of the Assad regime's "true colours."...
U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford is retiring at the end of the month, current and former U.S. officials said on Tuesday. Ford , a career foreign service officer and a fluent Arabic speaker, was instrumental in negotiating with Syrian opposition...
Men pull a girl from the rubble and haul her onto a dirty sheet of plastic, while another child, coated in white dust save for a red streak of blood from his nose, lies with his crushed leg dangling off a gurney - the grisly aftermath from the dropping of a crude “barrel...