Dozens of people in the southern suburbs of Damascus have died of starvation after spending months living on scraps of food, trapped in one of the worst sieges of the civil war, activists claim. For more than a year, nothing has been allowed in or out of a number of...

At first glance, it seems to be no more than a nondescript suburban street of neat 1930s semis, too close to the noisy A40 dual carriageway to be fashionable.  But this road in the West London suburb of Acton has become the capital’s unlikely front line in Syria’s...

  Lugging three plastic sacks full of clothes, Abu Mohammed and his three daughters pulled back the wrought iron border crossing gate, stepped through it into Turkey and smiled. As one daughter wept tears of relief, her father recounted their 12-hour journey from...

  The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has taken most of the town of al-Bab in Syria's Aleppo province after fighting with rebels, an NGO said Monday. The advance by the group in the country's turbulent north comes after 10 days of fighting pitting...