Syria’s army and rebels have agreed local truces in key flashpoints around Damascus, despite regime and opposition representatives failing to make any progress in Geneva peace talks. In the southern suburb of Babila, AFP journalists Monday saw rebels and soldiers – all...

U.N. workers on Sunday found a four-year-old Syrian boy crossing the Jordanian desert to be with his parents, in the latest poignant story emerging from the country’s bitter civil war that has left more than 130,000 people dead. “Here 4 year old Marwan, who was temporarily...

From the moment we cross the Turkish border into Syria, evidence of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria's draconian and brutal rule lingers. More than a month after the group was driven from the town of Addana, residents here drive through the streets, pointing out where...

The Greek philosopher Aristotle believed that the universe had existed for ever. The reason humanity was not more developed, he believed, was that floods or other natural disasters repeatedly set civilisation back to the beginning. Today, humans are developing ever faster. Our...