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Clashes between Bedouin tribes, government forces and members of a minority sect in Syria have left dozens dead and once ...
United Nations sanctions monitors have seen no "active ties" this year between Al Qaeda and the Islamist group leading ...
Thousands of Syrian refugees are set to return from Lebanon this week under the first, U.N.-backed plan providing financial ...
The State Department revoked the terrorist designation of Hayʼat Tahrir al-Sham, a group headed by the country’s new ...
Syria announced on Thursday that it would give state approval for the United Nations to deliver humanitarian aid into rebel-held northern areas through a contentious border crossing with Turkey ...
Beirut, LEBANON – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) are deeply concerned about the rapid deterioration in the ...
(Beirut) – United Nations agencies should activate the UN’s human rights framework for Syria in their aid plans, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the agencies that developed the ...
Russia and China have vetoed a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution to extend aid deliveries from Turkey to Syria, which the UN says is crucial to save millions of lives. The six-year ...
Why have sanctions been so unsuccessful at stopping Assad’s killing machine? A big part of the blame lies with the UN-led humanitarian effort in Syria.
The brazen strike on an aid convoy in Syria prompts a fierce denunciation from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who called the attack “sickening, savage and apparently deliberate.” ...
(New York) – The Russian and Chinese vetoes on May 22, 2014, of a UN Security Council resolution to refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC) betray victims of ...
Displaced Syrian residents wait to receive food aid distributed by the UN Relief and Works Agency at the besieged al-Yarmouk camp, south of Damascus, Syria, on January 31, 2014. According to the ...