More than 11,000 children have died in Syria's civil war in nearly three years, including hundreds targeted by snipers, a new report says. Summary executions and torture have also been used against children as young as one, the London-based Oxford Research Group think tank says. The...

Activists have published pictures of a long wall in Homs, near the water store in al-Zahra, the neighbourhood of Alawite majority, at the junction between Arman and East Cornish neighbourhoods. On that wall, pictures of hundreds of soldiers and members of National Defence Forces...

  Syrian troops have recaptured parts of a military base seized by rebels earlier this year in a fierce fighting near Aleppo international airport, activists say. Heavy fighting erupted in the early hours of Friday around Base 80 outside Syria’s main northern city....

The death toll from a week of clashes in Lebanon between supporters and opponents of Syria’s regime has risen to 13, a security official said on Sunday. Two people died in clashes on Saturday and another two were killed early on Sunday in the northern port city of Tripoli, the official...