Lebanon must offer Syrian asylum, not detention: HRW

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been ruthlessly bombing towns under opposition control since July. This week two reports detail, for the first time, the stunning extent of the indiscriminate death from above.

Peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held "constructive" talks in Syria with President Bashar al-Assad, as Washington warned that his regime's days are numbered. As jihadists seized an area populated by the embattled leader's Alawite community, the opposition National Coalition accused Damascus of committing a "massacre" of dozens of civilians in the bombing of a bakery.

RAMTHA, JORDAN — Like many of their fellow Jordanians, Hamzi Dardur and his two friends initially welcomed the Syrians who began surging across the nearby border last year. After all, their neighbours were fleeing one of the nastiest civil wars the region has ever seen. Now, the young men are not feeling so magnanimous.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned that the fall of his regime would destabilise the region "for many years," as US President Barack Obama announced talks with Middle East allies over the crisis.

President Bashar al-Assad said his regime has conquered the "conspiracy" against it, even as rebels overran the capital of Raqa province and captured its governor in the biggest success of their revolt.

Rape is being used as a weapon of war in the Syrian conflict to such an extent that many refugee families are citing it a as a primary reason to flee, according to a new report. The study of the nearly 600,000 people who have fled the country since the start of the civil war stated it was a "staggering humanitarian disaster".

Russians fleeing the civil war in Syria described miserable conditions on the ground, Thomas Grove of Reuters reports.

Camp Run by Syrian-Americans Atimah Refuee Camp, Syria — Firas Salam struggled to carry the eight liter jerry can up the hill. When the thirteen year old reached the top, he veered right into a row of tents. But before he could make it to the 220 square foot nylon bivouac, he slipped into the muddy earth, spilling his can.