(Reuters) - Syrian troops have broken a year-long rebel siege on Aleppo's main prison after heavy fighting with al Qaeda fighters and other Islamist brigades, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Thursday. It said forces loyal to President Bashar...

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — The United Nations' refugee commission expressed gratitude Wednesday that Uruguay is preparing to provide a new home for 100 children orphaned by Syria's civil war. Senior regional UNHCR official Michelle Alfaro said there are more than 2 million...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama has discussed the situation in Syria with Jordan's King Abdullah II. The two leaders spoke Wednesday and the White House says their conversation centered on the impact Syria's civil war was having on Jordan and other...

A candidate standing against Bashar al-Assad in next month's Syria's presidential election says the country's conflict began because of the regime's poor economic management and a minority elite monopolising wealth. "Today there is a nationwide war and a foreign plot, but in the...