The United Nations has accused both sides to the Syria conflict of grave violations against children. Children caught in the Syrian war are being recruited as child soldiers, used as human shields, and tortured, according to a new UN report. The report, released on...

Syrian army helicopters carried out new raids over the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, dropping explosive-packed barrel bombs as they press a punishing aerial assault, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported multiple barrel bomb attacks across...

  Two prominent Republican senators say that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told them – along with 13 other members of a bipartisan congressional delegation – that President Barack Obama’s administration is in need of a new, more assertive, Syria policy; that...

Twenty-five year old Ako Abd al-Qadir went to wage holy war in Syria vowing to return and conquer all of Iraqi Kurdistan in the name of Islam on the way back to his home town of Halabja. "God willing, we will come back and trample over your dead bodies until we reach Halabja," he said,...