Abu Huraira is haunted by memories of shells falling from the sky, ripping to pieces people trying to bury their loved ones in a Syrian graveyard. He is unnerved by the mental images of mutilated bodies, and of bones laid bare in his rebel comrades' deep wounds. But the...

Among the dwindling holdouts in the rebel-held Old City neighborhood of Homs, an area of the devastated Syrian city that international relief officials are trying to evacuate, is the former star goalkeeper of the national soccer team, transformed over three years from a pacifist...

Moscow Wednesday accused Washington of deliberately distorting its position on conflict-torn Syria, a day after US President Barack Obama branded Russia as a holdout against a UN draft resolution on Syria aid. "This is unlikely that our US partners do not possess real information on...

The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday began debating a Western-Arab draft resolution that would demand humanitarian aid access to besieged areas in conflict-torn Syria, a text Russia has dismissed as "detached from reality." The text was prepared by Australia, Luxembourg and Jordan,...