Dozens of people were killed in an eighth day of air strikes on Aleppo in Syria on Sunday, a watchdog said, as a bombing in Homs killed five schoolchildren. "Dozens of people were killed or wounded" in attacks that saw loyalist warplanes drop so-called barrel bombs near...

 Syrian forces are "wreaking disaster" on Aleppo, killing hundreds in air strikes on the city, Human Rights Watch said Saturday, as peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held talks with Iran's foreign minister.    "The Syrian air force is either criminally...

  Russia on Friday blocked a US-drafted UN Security Council statement condemning the Syrian government's increasing military offensive on Aleppo, diplomats said. The move heightened diplomatic tensions ahead of a key Russia-US-UN meeting in Geneva on Friday on...

  The U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution on Wednesday expressing outrage at “widespread and systematic gross violations” by Syrian authorities, the Associated Press reported.   The resolution, initiated by Saudi Arabia on behalf of dozens of states...