The United Nations Security Council has agreed to a statement condemning widespread violence in Syria's coastal region and ...

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last ...

In a draft resolution, the Arab League on Sunday called on the UN to send peacekeepers to Syria. It also advocates strengthening economic sanctions against that country. The AL calls for the ...

The United Nations on Sunday said reports of entire families being killed in northwestern Syria was “extremely disturbing” and it called for an immediate halt to the violence. UN rights chief ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, also called on Syria’s interim government to investigate these murders and take prompt measures to protect the civilian population GENEVA ...

UN Human Rights spokesperson on Syria confirmed the deaths of 111 Syrian civilians in recent mass killings, in a Geneva press briefing on Tuesday. The spokesperson remarked that the true number is ...

Lebanese authorities are set to hold an emergency meeting on Saturday after a deputy commander with the UN peacekeeping force ... the ousting in neighbouring Syria of its ally Bashar al-Assad ...

The UN is urging Syria's interim leaders to take "swift action to protect Syrians" following a wave of violence against the Alawite community At least 1,000 Alawites, including children ...

Israel had already said the day before, as the Islamist-led insurgents swiftly advanced across Syria, that its soldiers had entered the UN-patrolled buffer zone to assist peacekeepers in repelling ...