Canada closed its Tehran embassy on Friday and ordered Iranian diplomats be expelled, in a damning severance of ties in which it accused the Islamic Republic of being the biggest threat to world peace

The number of Syrian refugees rose sharply last month, with more than 100,000 fleeing the war-torn country to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, the UN refugee agency said Tuesday.

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Regime troops killed at least 21 people in a blistering assault on a central village on Sunday, a watchdog said, while twin blasts rocked Damascus and Syria's second city Aleppo was hit by air strikes

The U.N.'s new envoy to Syria said on Saturday that President Bashar Assad's regime should realize that the need for change was both 'urgent' and 'necessary' and that it must meet the 'legitimate' dem

Row upon row of bloodied bodies wrapped in colorful blankets laid out on a mosque floor in a Damascus suburb. Long narrow graves tightly packed with dozens of victims.

Nestled among them, two babies

Syrian rebels claimed they shot down an army helicopter during fierce fighting in Damascus on Monday, saying it was to avenge the ‘massacre’ of over 330 people in the town of Daraya blamed on regime f

Syrian army shells crashed into southern Damascus on Wednesday and helicopters fired rockets and machineguns during an assault to shore up President Bashar al-Assad's grip on the capital, opposition a

US President Barack Obama warned Syria on Monday that Washington will not tolerate any deployment of chemical weapons, as fighting raged from the north to the south of the country.

Obama put Bashar a

A female Japanese reporter has been killed after being caught in gunfire while covering clashes in Syria's northern city of Aleppo, the Japanese foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

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* Top Chinese diplomat holds strategic talks in Russia

* Obama says could act against Syria over chemical arms

* Russia still smarting over intervention in Libya

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lav