BEIRUT — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday in Syria's central city of Homs, tearing through an area largely populated...

HOMS, Syria, June 7 (Reuters) - In one district in the battered city of Homs, one school educates children while the other three shelter families wh...

It is not surprising that the power of technology available to support post-conflict humanitarian action vastly surpasses the ability of governments, ...

BEIRUT -- Syrian government troops pushed Thursday into the central districts of the city of Homs in an effort to oust rebels from the country's third...

I am resigned to having the U.S. remain color blind to red lines, largely because the options for credible retaliation are so wretchedly unpalatable. We will be hearing in the coming days about lots of options... until they are exposed to the cold, cruel light of day.

BEIRUT — Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen captured at least one village in heavy fighting Sunday in a strategic area near the Leban...

AL-QASR, LEBANON — Syrian soldiers backed by warplanes battled rebels for control of strategic hilltop villages near the Lebanese border on Frid...

BEIRUT — After weeks of rebel gains in the south, the Syrian regime launched a counteroffensive on Sunday with widespread airstrikes and an oper...

DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria's opposition took over the country's seat for the first time at an Arab summit Tuesday in a diplomatic triumph marred by...

GENEVA -- The U.N. children's agency says 420,000 people - half of them children - need immediate help in Syria's western governorate of Homs. UNIC...

BEIRUT — Gunmen loyal to President Bashar Assad swept through a mainly Sunni farming village in central Syria this week, torching houses and kil...

A State Department cable suggests the Syrian army likely used chemical weapons during an attack in the city of Homs last month, Foreign Policy's The C...

By Erika Solomon BEIRUT, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Syria special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi discussed solving the country's conflict with President Bashar al-A...

BEIRUT — The Syrian military opened a second urban front Friday, attacking the rebel stronghold of Homs with the most intense artillery barrage ...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Khaled Yacoub Oweis ANTAKYA/AMMAN, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Syrian football star Abdelbasset Sarout gained a new k...

Members of Syria's diverse Christian communities are finding themselves engulfed in the fog of war and increasingly targeted.

It is extremely difficult to decipher who has taken up arms against each other inside the war-torn nation. But after several months of assessing the situation, a murky, violent and terrifying picture is emerging of who is engaged in the fighting for and against the Assad regime.

ISTANBUL — The Syrian ambassador to Iraq has defected, denouncing President Bashar Assad in a TV statement Wednesday, becoming the most senior d...

In 2006 it was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site, yet today the medieval crusader castle Crac Des Chevaliers in Syria's Homs province is at t...

GENEVA, June 22 (Reuters) - The number of people needing humanitarian assistance in Syria has risen to 1.5 million from the previous estimate of 1 m...

BEIRUT — Syrian forces shelled the central city of Homs on Monday during a fierce offensive to root out rebels as the country's most important a...

BEIRUT -- The head of the U.N. observers' mission in Syria demanded Sunday that warring parties allow the evacuation of women, children, elderly and s...