A new report by former war crime prosecutors says claims that there is evidence that the Assad regime has systematically tortured and executed 11,000 prisoners since the uprising began in 2011.
UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage has called on Western countries, including the UK, to be more accepting of refugees from Syria’s ongoing civil war.
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.