The death toll in Syria's conflict has risen to at least 125,835, more than a third of them civilians, but the real figure is probably much higher, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday. The pro-opposition monitoring group also appealed to U.N....

  Syria’s Democratic Union Party, the country’s most powerful Kurdish group, hopes to create an autonomous Kurdish region in a federal Syria, its chief, Salih Muslim, told AFP in an interview.   Speaking during a visit to France, he confirmed that...

Winter is fast approaching in Iraq’s Kurdistan and as heavy rain threatens to exacerbate an already dire situation for the region’s 235,000 Syrian Kurdish refugees, local organizations are fighting a battle against time in an attempt to soften the cold blow of winter. November...

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees visited a new refugee camp in Lebanon on Friday and said "massive support" was needed for Lebanon and the Syrian refugees who are fleeing there.   Antonio Guterres toured the camp in Arsal village in northeast Lebanon, meeting some of the...