The prospect of air strikes in Syria has grown with political developments driving towards military action.

The graves had run into each other, mounds of red earth washed by the rain, blown by the wind.

Syria's civil war has driven almost a third of the country's population from their homes, causing the humanitarian calamity of the century, says the United Nations.

The lucky ones move in with relatives; the poorest sleep under bridges. Others find themselves crammed into the old Palestinian refugee camps of south Beirut.

Why did US President Barack Obama delay planned air strikes on Syria after the chemical attack last month?

Amid signs in Washington of deep anxiety about unintended consequences and unforeseeable outcomes.

Shame' over colonial history is seeing valuable threads of the nation's story left to crumble into ruin.

President Barack Obama, working to persuade sceptical lawmakers to endorse a US military intervention in civil war-wracked Syria, hosted two leading Capitol Hill foreign policy hawks for talks.