Israeli fire has killed eight people in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has largely held ...

By Emmett Lindner Syria’s interim president ... Lives lived: Uri Shulevitz, a children’s book author who turned childhood memories of fleeing the Nazis in Poland into magical stories, died ...

Syria’s interim president ... Lives lived: Uri Shulevitz, a children’s book author who turned childhood memories of fleeing the Nazis in Poland into magical stories, died at 89.

Mohammed, 15, learned about the dangers of unexploded ordnance at a UNICEF child-friendly space — knowledge he used to save ...

An NPR investigation finds that more than 350 Syrian children were secretly placed in orphanages across the capital, Damascus, when the Assad regime was in power. Now, some of them cannot be found.

Armed men loyal to the Syrian government carried out field executions ... “I fear for my life and the lives of my two children,” Bashir said. Armed men started heading en masse to Latakia ...

Another 60 people were killed in the town of Baniyas, including women and children, the observatory said. Syrian authorities did not publish a death toll, but Syria's state news agency SANA quoted ...

They appear to have been carried out on a sectarian basis." The killings have forced hundreds of Syrian men, women and children to wade through a river to safety in neighbouring Lebanon.

The Britain-based Observatory, which relies on a network of sources in Syria, reported multiple "massacres" in recent days, with women and children among the dead. During a sermon in Damascus ...

125 members of the Syrian security forces, and 148 fighters loyal to Assad. Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the observatory, said the civilians included Alawite women and children. Abdulrahman told ...

children and hors de combat [surrendered] fighters, being killed," U.N. human rights commissioner Volker Türk said in a statement. "The killing of civilians in coastal areas in north-west Syria ...