With global attention focused on the fight against jihadists, Syria’s regime has in recent weeks stepped up its use of deadly barrel bomb strikes, killing civilians and wreaking devastation. In less ...

Eleven children were killed on Thursday in a barrel bomb attack carried out by government forces on a rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria’s Aleppo city, a monitor said. “Fifteen civilians, among them 11 ...

Thanks to Vladimir Putin’s military intervention in Syria, the international community, once united, if in nothing else, in damning the bloody Bashar Al-Assad dictatorship, has now muted its criticism ...