Mohammed has paid a heavy price for treating the wounded in his home country.  In late 2012, he was working as a field doctor in Damascus when he became the target of a brutal crackdown on those providing medical assistance to the injured in opposition-held areas. "I left...

  Syrian state television said a mortar shell landed near a hospital in a government-controlled neighborhood of the central city of Homs, killing at least five people.               State TV said the mortar...

Not long after the uprising in Syria turned bloody, late in the spring of 2011, the Pentagon and the National Security Agency developed a battle plan that featured a sophisticated cyberattack on the Syrian military and President Bashar al-Assad’s command structure. The...

Almost three years into Syria’s civil war, civilians are still being targeted by all sides, and aid efforts continue to be prevented and undermined. This was the assessment delivered today by UN Deputy Humanitarian Chief,  Ms. Kyung-wha Kang  in a statement to the UN General...