The prime minister's wife met some of those caught up in the two-year conflict during a visit to a refugee camp in neighbouring Lebanon in March. Citing senior government sources,  The Times reported she had since pushed for a bolder humanitarian response. But Downing Street said...

  A car bomb exploded outside the police headquarters in a town north of the Syrian capital, killing at least 13 people including 10 policemen, activists said Monday. The Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights said to AP the blast took place overnight in the town of Deir...

The Pakistani government denied BBC allegations that Pakistan Taliban had visited Syria to set up a base and to assess "the needs of the jihad". Pakistani Foreign ministry said on Monday that no  evidence  for what media outlets had circulated about a  base was set...

   A month ago Obama administration officials promised to deliver arms and ammunition to the Syrian rebels in the hope of reversing the tide of a war that had turned against an embattled opposition.   But interviews with American, Western and Middle...