Houla massacre further isolates Syrian President Bashar Assad and embarrasses his few remaining allies Eyewitness accounts from the Syrian massacre emerged Tuesday, describing shadowy gunmen ...

An 11-year-old boy was able to survive the massacres in Houla, and he told the Guardian how pro-regime militia men killed his family, and how he managed to escape. The boy said the militia entered ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad said on Sunday that, despite deep suspicion from the United Nations, the Syrian government had nothing to do with last week's massacre in Houla, where more than 100 ...

Update: CNN reports the State Department has expelled Syrian charge d'affaires Zuheir Jabbour. "He & his family have 72 hours to leave US." The first tangible international consequences of the Syrian ...

Syrian President Bashar Assad said that his country is engaged in a "real war" with outside forces and denied any role in the Houla massacre in his first public address since January. In a televised ...

Monitors for the United Nations have confirmed 108 victims, including 49 children and 34 women — many executed at close range — by Syrian soldiers last Friday. After this latest massacre in Houla, ...

BEIRUT — U.N. observers could smell the stench of burned corpses Friday and saw body parts scattered around a Syrian farming hamlet that was the site of a massacre this week in which nearly 80 men, ...

BEIRUT — Syrian forces Wednesday launched a fresh assault on the site of last week’s Houla massacre, forcing villagers to flee heavy shelling in fear of more carnage, a watchdog and the opposition ...

As U.N. officials cited eyewitness accounts of gunmen slaughtering families in their homes, Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats Tuesday in a coordinated move against President Bashar Assad's ...

This type of massacre — even more than the shelling and mortar attacks that have become daily occurrences in the uprising — is a sign of a new level of violence. By most accounts, the gunmen descended ...