More than 191,000 people have been killed in th Syrian conflict up to April, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says.
A mass grave with the bodies of at least nine people has been uncovered in a family’s garden in Sri Lanka.
A British doctor has died in a Syrian prison after more than a year of torture and detention without charge.
The Syrian National Coalition have confirmed that they will be attending January’s peace talks in Geneva, but they are not optimistic about the outcome unless Assad agrees to concede power.
The human cost of Syria’s 33 months of bloody civil war is estimated to have reached 126,000, with vicious abuses being perpetrated by both sides.