Seattle Post Intelligencer
The number of Syrians in need of food aid has jumped from 250,000 in April to 1.5 million today, the head of the U.N.'s food agency said Monday, as more civilians are driven from their homes by an escalating civil war. Separately, the international...
Washington Post
The new U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria offered a downbeat assessment Monday on the prospects for peace in the war-torn country, saying that he would be powerless to avert worsening civil and sectarian strife as long as the United Nations' biggest...
The Guardian
Hussein Malla/AP Syrian air force planes bombed targets in the northern city of Aleppo, killing 15 people, including three children from one family, according to opposition sources. Fighting was also reported around Damascus and elsewhere across the...
Mail Online UK
Syria grabbed the spotlight at the United Nations on Monday with a dire warning from international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi that the war is getting worse and threatening to spill across the Middle East. However he also voiced a note of hope, saying he...
DAWN
UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Monday he sees no immediate prospect for an end to the Syrian civil war. There is no prospect for today or tomorrow to move forward, Brahimi told reporters after briefing the UN Security Council on his recent...
Russia Today
The Syrian civil war has done much to divide a nation, as the sectarian fault lines it exposes are without borders. Amidst the Syrian bloodshed, neighboring Lebanon risks being sucked into a conflict that could tear the country apart. After Syrian...