Not so long ago Noura al-Ameer was being beaten and subjected to electric shocks in a Syrian prison. Today, she sits across from the regime that put her there, hoping diplomacy can end her country's suffering. "It was as if I was seeing the faces of the killers, the bombers, the...

The job was too much for Kofi Annan. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning former U.N. secretary general - hardly known as a quitter - threw in the towel in August 2012, declaring that serving as international mediator for Syria was impossible as long as global powers were hopelessly divided....

The Assad military continues to bombard Darayya, southwest of Damascus, amid ongoing fighting between regime forces and insurgents for control of the suburb — activists report at least 22 bombs, including “barrel bombs”, dropped today. There seems to be a massive push to...

  Syrian government forces dropped barrel bombs on rebel-held districts of Aleppo Wednesday, killing 13 people as they pressed an assault southeast of the northern city, a monitoring group said. Government troops also battled rebel forces near Krak des Chevaliers, a famed...