Now that Bashar al-Assad is crushing opposition with terrible brutality, no one in the West knows how to deal with him.

There is no place for President Bashar al-Assad in any future Syrian government, diplomats say, as Russia and China agree to transition plan.

Baghdad resounds to the tales of the dead. Not the distant, dry accounting of news wires, but terrifying close-up accounts. Six beheaded corpses are dumped with their heads between their knees in Muhammad's street in Ghazaliya, a largely Sunni suburb of Baghdad. United States soldiers ask him to search the bodies for IDs, fearful the corpses may be booby-trapped..

Human rights commissioner reveals blood-letting is a third more than previously estimated.

Now that Bashar al-Assad is crushing opposition with terrible brutality, no one in the West knows how to deal with him.

There is no place for President Bashar al-Assad in any future Syrian government, diplomats say, as Russia and China agree to transition plan.

Outrage sparked by new twists in the case of an Australia-Israel citizen who killed himself in prison in Israel.

Baghdad resounds to the tales of the dead. Not the distant, dry accounting of news wires, but terrifying close-up accounts. Six beheaded corpses are dumped with their heads between their knees in Muhammad's street in Ghazaliya, a largely Sunni suburb of Baghdad. United States soldiers ask him to search the bodies for IDs, fearful the corpses may be booby-trapped..