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.
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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.
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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.
Mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will meet representatives of the warring sides in Syria separately for the first few days to increase pressure on them.
Syria expects to remove 200 people from the city of Homs during a three-day ceasefire while humanitarian organisations provide aid to those remaining.
Russia has offered assurances that the Syrian government will soon ship more toxic agents abroad for destruction.
Rebels with ties to al-Qaeda have posted an internet video of a beheading of a pro-government fighter in Homs.
Rebels with ties to al-Qaeda have posted an internet video of a beheading of a pro-government fighter in Homs.
Aid agencies in Syria have evacuated hundreds of people from the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Yarmouk.
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