Cost of the non-lethal assistance would be met from the Government's conflict pool fund.

Extremist elements in Syria were assessed by the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee to represent 'the most worrying terrorist threat'

Loyalists could have a future in a new Syria if they topple their President

London Mayor rejects intervention over fear of putting 'weapons into the hands of maniacs'

Former PM: 'We should be taking a more interventionist line. That’s where I come from in politics'

Britain and US spell out catalogue of chemical weapons atrocities as the threat to supply arms to Assad’s enemies risks rift with Russians

PM said said Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons against his own people 'under our noses' must be addressed

Debate has been raging for weeks inside the White House over the worsening conflict

Washington meetings come in wake of rebels' loss of Qusair

No options are off the table if Syria's ruling regime refuses to seriously engage in an international conference to broker peace in the country, Foreign Secretary William Hague said today.

The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko has called for the inquest into her late husband's death to be abandoned and for a public inquiry to be held in its place.

The deadly nerve agent sarin does appear to have been used by Bashar Assad’s regime during Syria’s two-year civil war according to a “growing body of limited but persuasive information”, David Cameron has told MPs.

UN officials insist inquiry 'has not reached conclusive findings'