Aid workers are struggling to understand fluctuating Syrian refugee flows into Jordan in recent weeks. The government insists the border remains open, but refugees tell harrowing stories of being turned back.
The UN have launched a $5 billion (£3.2bn) humanitarian campaign for Syria stating that by the end of the year half of the population of the war-torn country, 10 million people, will be in need of aid.
As police fired tear gas and pointed pressurized water hoses at protesters marching towards Taksim Square in weekend anti-government protests, Syria’s regime was busy spinning Turkey’s predicament in its favour.
Pro-Assad forces have seized full control of the strategic town of Qusair near the Lebanese border
A Muslim man who held a British passport has been killed in Syria along with two others according to UK-based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights