Polio has returned to Syria after a long absence, and other dangerous diseases are on the increase The World Health Organisation has recorded the first suspected outbreak of polio for 14 years in   Syria , sparking renewed alarm at the collapse of health care caused by the country's...

He's practically a one man band, but Rami Abdurrahman's influence extends far beyond his modest home in this small English city. The bald, bespectacled 42-year-old operates the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights from his house in the cathedral city of Coventry — and a review of recent...

Tonnes of medicine became under rebels control after capturing Tamico factory in Damascus suburbs yesterday, according to footage has circulated on the internet. The most important medicine was the anti-dote, Atropine, the simplest treatment for nerve gas attacks....

Snipers are deliberately shooting at pregnant women in Syria as they try to win packets of cigarettes for hitting their targets, a British doctor has said, according to the British Independent. David Nott, who recently spent five weeks as a volunteer surgeon in a hospital in Syria,...