The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has warned that one million people in crisis-hit Syria remain without food. “A conservative estimate is a million people without food,” said a senior Red Cross official on Monday. Simon...

Residents of a village in eastern Lebanon forced hundreds of Syrian refugees from an informal campsite on Monday, setting fire to tents after accusing them of raping a mentally-disabled man. But a doctor who examined the man said there was no evidence he was attacked, and one resident of the...

Islamist fighters in Syria have taken over the ancient quarter of the Christian town of Maaloula and are holding several nuns in a monastery there, state news agency SANA said on Monday. Fighting for the town, about five km (three miles) from the main road linking Damascus to Homs, is...

Evidence collected by U.N. investigators probing Syrian war crimes implicates President Bashar al-Assad, United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Monday.   Pillay later denied having direct knowledge of their secret list of suspects, but her revealing...