More than 305 people were killed across Syria on Wednesday, making it the bloodiest single day of the 18-month revolt, an NGO has revealed.
US President Barack Obama will lead Western demands for action on the Syrian civil war at the United Nations General Assembly.
Syrian troops have pounded Aleppo to thwart a rebel advance in Syria’s second city as actress Angelina Jolie visited a Jordanian camp for refugees.
The Zata’ari refugee camp, opened by the Jordanian government to house 500 people, has swollen to a population of more than 26 000.
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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he had used this week’s trip to push for human rights and transparency from Tehran over its nuclear programme.
Mohamed Morsi’s Tehran visit, the first by an Egyptian leader since 1979, is part of plan to form a regional contact group to broker peace in Syria.
More than 200 bodies have been found in basements and houses, and most were killed "execution-style" by troops on house-to-house raids.
Intense fighting between rebels and Syrian regime forces killed six people, including two children and two women in the southern city of Dara’a.
President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have resorted increasingly to air power to hold back lightly armed insurgents in the capital Damascus and Aleppo.
Brahimi, who served as a UN envoy in Afghanistan, formally accepted the post and will resume efforts to find a diplomatic solution to Syria’s crisis.
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has suspended Syria’s participation, citing President Bashar a-Assad’s suppression of the Syrian revolt.
A pro-government TV station in Syria has said that one of its cameramen who was kidnapped three days ago is believed to have been killed.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appeared on television for the first time in more than two weeks as his troops fight rebels in Aleppo.
State television says Assad’s forces are "cleansing the terrorist filth" from the country, which has been sucked into a sectarian conflict.
Rebel commander in Aleppo said he expected a Syrian army attack on rebels "within days".
Former civilians have been quickly picking up the tactics that will make them a formidable military force. Luke Harding reports.
Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan is stepping down as the UN-Arab League mediator in the 17-month-old Syria conflict at the end of the month.
Syrian rebels have bombarded an air base used by regime forces to pound Aleppo, while dozens have been reported killed in a raid near Damascus.
Russia has vetoed UN action against Syria, but Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says he’s unsure what role Assad will have in the nation’s future.
Russia has made no agreement to grant Bashar al-Assad asylum and is "not even thinking about" doing so, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
Condemnation of Syria has increased after it issued a veiled threat to use chemical or biological weapons if it was attacked by outside forces.
Assad’s move to protect his capital has been compared to a doctor "abandoning the patient’s limbs to save the organs".
South Africa has abstained from voting on a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria as it felt it favoured one side of the conflict.
A fourth member of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s inner circle has died from a bomb attack this week as rebels converge on the capital.
Russia and China have vetoed a Western-backed UN Security Council resolution that threatened Syrian authorities with sanctions.
The assassination of the regime’s top military strategists has led to mass defections from the Syrian army, writes Martin Chulov.
Former detainees have identified the locations, agencies, torture methods and commanders responsible for rights abuses in Syria to Human Rights Watch.
The United States and its international partners have called for global sanctions against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Most of the torture victims interviewed were young men between 18 and 35, but they also included children, women and the elderly.
Russia’s desire to keep its last remaining ally in the Middle East collided head-long with the United States’ desire to remove President Bashar Assad.
Nato states have expressed mounting anger over the downing of a Turkish fighter jet by Syria as they readied for an emergency meeting on the shooting.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 116 people, 77 of them civilians, were killed in violence across the country on Saturday.