More than 300 people were killed in Syria on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, in one of the bloodiest days in the 18-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.

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The UN refugee agency warned Thursday there could be as many as 700,000 Syrian refugees in countries neighbouring the war-torn nation by the end of the year, up from 300,000 now.

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A global children's aid agency warned on Tuesday that Syrian children are being ‘badly traumatised’ after witnessing killings, torture and other atrocities in their country's brutal conflict.

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi met on Saturday to discuss the situation in Syria, expressing hope that an upcoming UN General Assembly summit will help imp

A Syrian military helicopter that went down outside the capital Damascus on Thursday crashed after an accident with a civilian aircraft, state television said.

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At least 30 civilians were killed and dozens more wounded Thursday in an explosion at a petrol station in northeastern Syria, a human rights group said, with activists saying it was an air strike.

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International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was set to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday, hoping to breathe life into stalled peace efforts, as fighting rages in Damascus and beyond.

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie met with Syrian refugees in Turkey on Thursday to draw attention to the plight of the hundreds of thousands who have fled their nation's civil war.

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Her eyes welling up with tears, actress Angelina Jolie said Tuesday she heard 'horrific' and 'heartbreaking' accounts from Syrian refugees who fled the civil war in their country to find shelter in a

UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon called on Monday for all war criminals in Syria to be brought to justice, as his human rights chief urged a probe into the slaughter of hundreds in the town of Daraya.