Turkey has called on the UN to take action against Syria, but the war-torn nation said it will continue its offensive regardless.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has laid the groundwork for potential military action against the Syrian government over a chemical weapons attack.
Kurdish Democratic Union Party leader Saleh Muslim doubts Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is behind the chemical attacks near Damascus.
Bashar al-Assad has denied that his forces used chemical weapons on civilians, warning the US that a military intervention in Syria would fail.
US President Barack Obama is edging the US closer to a war in Syria, raising echoes of George W Bush’s moves before invading Iraq, says a lawmaker.
Syria warned the US against action over a suspected poison gas attack, saying it would "create a ball of fire that will inflame the Middle East".
President Barack Obama and his top advisers hashed out options on Saturday for responding to the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Barack Obama’s security advisers will convene this weekend to discuss options, including possible military action, against the Syrian government.
An apparent gas attack in Damascus is thought to be the most significant use of chemical weapons since the gassing of Kurds 25 years ago.
Dozens of people have been killed and wounded in a fierce army bombardment of areas near Damascus, a Syrian NGO has said.
US House and Senate give green light to Obama’s plan to supply light weapons to rebel groups.
From his home in Leicester, former business administrator Elliot Higgins trawls through sometimes hundreds of videos a day from Syria’s civil war.
Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi’s national security adviser has said that a "military coup" is under way in the North African country.
Screen star Angelina Jolie has criticised UN Security Council powers for their lack of action over wartime rapes, invoking Syria and other conflicts.
Syria’s Bashar al-Assad won’t step down at a proposed peace conference in Geneva but will only discuss the formation of a national unity government.
International opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad agreed on Saturday to give urgent military support to Western-backed rebels.
US President Barack Obama has faced a showdown with Russia’s Vladimir Putin over Obama’s decision last week to arm the insurgents.
The Pentagon said US F-16s would to stay in Jordan, as Russia bristled at the possibility they could be used to enforce a no-fly zone inside Syria.
The EU and Russia have begun talks dominated by the Syria crisis and Brussels’s decision to lift its arms embargo on Bashar al-Assad’s foes.
Syrian authorities, battling an uprising in which at least 80 000 people have been killed, advised citizens against travel to Turkey.
Humanitarian aid won’t be allowed into Qusair until the fighting there is over, Syria’s foreign minister has told UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
Aid organisations stepped up calls for civilians trapped in the Syrian town of Qusayr to be evacuated.
There could be no more dreadful idea than to pour more armaments into the sectarian war that is consuming Syria.
Syria’s opposition coalition has said it will not engage in international peace talks while Hezbollah backs President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
South African journalist Yusuf Omar relives the recurring nightmare that is the Syria conflict and finds hope in the spirit of its people.
Failure to renew an arms embargo on Syria could hamper US-Russian peace talks with the worn-torn nation.
United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon says he is "deeply concerned" by Hezbollah’s growing role in Syria’s civil war.
Syria’s opposition resumed talks aimed at closing their fractious ranks, as government forces launched a fierce onslaught on a rebel-held border town.
Troops have pushed into a rebel-held Syrian town near the Lebanese border, fighting house to house and bombing from the air.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria.
UN Syrian rebels have seized three UN peacekeepers in the Golan Heights in the third abduction in two months in the zone between Syria and Israel.
Twin car bombs killed 43 people and wounded many more in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Saturday.