Syria

Eleven years since the crisis began in Syria, violence, displacement, and lack of access to essential services continue to put children’s lives at risk. Just yesterday, three children were reportedly killed by unexploded ordnance in Aleppo...

According to state media, Israeli missile attacks near Damascus killed at least two civilians before daybreak on Monday. According to Syria’s official SANA news agency, which cited a military source, Israel launched the strikes at around...

US special forces hunted down high-ranking jihadists in a rare airborne raid in northwestern Syria on Thursday, killing 13 people in an operation the Pentagon described as “successful”. The operation was thought to be the biggest...

The UN Secretary-General stated in an internal report Tuesday that cross-border humanitarian help to Syria is critical, as a UN permission allowing supplies into rebel-held areas in the country’s northwest without Damascus approval is up for...

Sherine Tadros, the head of Amnesty International’s UN office, responded to the UN Security Council’s vote renewing authorization of the Bab al-Hawa crossing point for the delivery of UN cross-border humanitarian aid from Turkey to northwest...

On Friday, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) agreed to prolong cross-border humanitarian delivery into Syria for another year. On Saturday, the UN mandate allowing the delivery was slated to expire. The 12-month extension was made...

The UN and a handful of countries pressured Russia Wednesday to continue allowing authorization of the only border crossing through which humanitarian aid reaches Syria’s insurgent Idlib region. “I strongly appeal to the members of the...

Syria’s Kurds on Saturday handed four relatives of Islamic State group fighters, including three children, to Dutch diplomats for repatriation, a thorny issue for authorities in the Netherlands, reports BSS. The group consisted of a Dutch...

Bashar al-Assad has been elected president of Syria for the fourth time in a row. He was elected with more than 95 percent votes. However, the country’s opposition parties have called the election a farce. The...

Polling stations opened Wednesday across Syria for an election guaranteed to return President Bashar al-Assad for a fourth term in office. The official news agency SANA declared voting had started as planned at 7:00 am (0400...