One million Syrian children have now been registered as refugees, forced from their homeland by a war that is well into its third year, the United Nations announced on Friday. "What is at stake is nothing less than the survival and wellbeing of a generation of innocents," António...

With the exception of the Obama administration’s official acknowledgment in June that Syria had almost certainly used chemical weapons against civilians, a moment it used to announce the shipment of some small arms to rebels, the United States has not shown much of a response to Syrian...

The US will not intervene in the Syria conflict because it does not believe anti-Assad rebels would support American interests, its highest ranking military officer wrote in a letter to a congressman. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Barack Obama's chief...

The United States refused to set new "red lines" for Syria Wednesday as claims of a horrific chemical arms strike reignited debate over Washington's reluctance to intervene in the civil war. Claims by Syrian rebels that President Bashar al-Assad's forces massacred 1,300 people in a chemical...