It is unclear how the ICC could proceed given that the court has no jurisdiction for crimes in Syria because it is not a member of the ICC.
Response in Rome is mixed as locals see other problems go unaddressed.
Humanitarian workers and activists say the government has repeatedly delayed access for relief and aid, potentially in violation of a truce agreement.
A refugee family is producing traditional Syrian Pita bread and pastries for the South African market.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said the shooting down of its jet would have “significant consequences, including for Russia-Turkish relations”.
Head of al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate calls on jihadists to attack Russian civilians and soldiers in retaliation for Moscow’s air strikes in Syria.
US Senator John McCain said Moscow’s real priority was to "prop up" Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Obama and Putin’s frosty meeting at the United Nations this week gives little hope of an end to the brutal conflict.
Reports from the scenes of Russia’s air strikes suggest that the targeting of groups other than Isis was deliberate. Yet the detail may not matter.
Warplanes have carried out air strikes in Hama, Homs and Latakia in what Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church has termed a "holy battle".
Tehran plays a critical role that unnerves its allies in the regime as much as its enemies.
The tabloid’s explicit use of a drowned boy underscores its baffling welcome to the refugees.
The situation for refugees in the Bekaa Valley is desperate.
Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra integrated migrants and worshipped many gods. It is being destroyed by the Islamic State’s monocultural bigotry.
Enough documentary evidence has been accumulated to prosecute the Syrian president.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the militants carried out raids on villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority west of Hasaka.
Hundreds of armed Turkish forces have entered Syria to evacuate troops guarding an Ottoman tomb.
Contradictions mean little to a dressmaker who patches up the people she shoots.
Guerrilla group "White Shroud" is hunting down Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant fighters in eastern Syria.
A looming bloodbath is spurring a Kurdish revolt in Turkey that could spin out of control.
United States President Barack Obama vowed to continue air strikes against Islamic State fighters and pledged to build more international support.
A Western-backed coalition of Syria’s opposition to President Bashar al-Assad says it is ready to work with the US to fight the Islamic State.
Desperate women are seeking refuge from war in arranged marriages, despite reports of abuse.
A witness to the US raid in Syria has described how dozens of commandos arrived in the middle of the night on heavily armed helicopters.
The United States has revealed a military attempt to rescue slain journalist James Foley from terrorist group Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
Jihadists have killed 270 Syrian regime fighters, civilian security guards and staff since seizing a gas field in Homs, a monitoring group said.
The United Nations will vote on a draft resolution which will allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syrians without government consent.
The ‘blood election’ has been widely denounced
– but it strengthens Al-Assad’s regime regardless.
Syria’s governement says a presidential election will take place on June 3, but Western leaders say the vote is a "parody of democracy".
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his armed forces shot down a Syrian military plane after it crosed into Turkish air space.
Syria’s exiled opposition will be barred from a presidential election to be held before July, virtually ensuring Bashar al-Assad’s re-election.
The international mediator for Syria has apologised for a lack of progress at "laborious" talks in Geneva.