Imagine you have a young child whose legs were amputated because the hospital didn't have the proper equipment to treat them.

Behind a closed curtain a Syrian man in his mid-30s is preparing himself and his 3-year-old daughter for an onslaught.

Syrian Government troops have seized the last rebel stronghold on the border with Lebanon.

A disturbing video put out by Save The Children has shown what Syria's civil war and refugee crisis would look like if it was set in the West.

Gruesome images have emerged on Twitter that appear to show a Syrian militant group posting live updates as they cut off the hand of a suspected thief.

What's happening in Syria today is an abomination, one that the world is watching coldly from a distance, writes Professor Stephen Hawking.

Six hundred days had passed under a punishing siege in the ravaged Old Quarter in Homs. It was the sixth day in a rebel-held area cut off by government troops.

The Government may well have acted beyond the law in cancelling the passports of New Zealanders intending to join rebel groups fighting the Assad regime.

Kiwis who travel to Syria to fight with rebel forces against the Assad regime are being misinformed by recruiters over social media, a Syrian living in Auckland says.

Aid workers braved mortar and small arms fire to evacuate Syrian civilians from a besieged area of the city of Homs.

Prime Minister says Kiwis returning from Syria deemed to have been `radicalised' will be monitored.

John Key says there are New Zealanders fighting in anti-government forces in Syria, while others have been blocked from going there by having their passports cancelled.

New Zealand has agreed to take 100 refugees from Syria after the United Nations called on the international community for help.

This week the agonies of Syria and much of the Mid-East came sharply home to Oz, where the reps of 60 countries met in Sydney for Interpol's inaugural global security and counter-terrorism convention.

Syrian negotiators have reached their first deal in peace talks in Geneva, an agreement to allow women and children to escape the siege of rebel-held districts of the city of Homs.

The United Nations has launched the biggest aid appeal in its history, calling for more than $7.9 billion to be dedicated to the crisis in Syria.

The United Nations has said it will need nearly $13 billion in aid in 2014 to reach at least 52 million people in 17 countries, including the millions of Syrians who have been displaced by their civil war.

A Paris-bound flight was rescheduled after Venezuela grounded an Air France plane that French authorities said terrorists might have been planning to blow up.

New Zealanders are fighting against the Assad regime in Syria and could pose a serious terror risk when they return home, it has been reported.

Cranes are lifting trailers into place and tents are being packed away as international aid workers rush to winterise a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan - trying to avoid a repeat of last year.

At this sprawling desert camp in Jordan, home to thousands of children who fled Syria's civil war, a few found a moment to smile over the weekend while watching a troop of clowns.

Professor William Harris sips his cup of tea in a small cafe in southern Turkey and recounts meeting Yasser Arafat, the former leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation.

The mission to destroy Syria's poison gas stockpile was dealt a serious blow when Albania refused to host the destruction.

At least 30 journalists currently are reported missing while covering Syria's civil war. The widespread abduction of journalists is unprecedented.