Syria

News Hour: The Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley, will make an official visit to Lebanon and Syria. This is the first visit of the newly appointed Executive Director to WFP operations...

News Hour: Leaping over bombed roofs and jumping through damaged window frames, a group of teenagers run and swing their way through buildings left dilapidated by six years of war in the southern Syrian town of...

News Hour: Oxfam has joined a program to help Syrians find refuge in Europe. 60 people, including many families, will arrive in Italy today to seek asylum as part of a humanitarian visa programme approved by...

News Hour: Syrian or Russian air strikes killed more than a dozen people and severely damaged a hospital in and around a town in rebel-held Idlib province on Tuesday, local medical workers and a monitoring group...

News Hour: Buses evacuated thousands of people from two rebel-besieged Shi’ite villages in northwest Syria on Friday and hundreds of rebels left a town near Damascus with their families, under a deal between the government and...

News Hour: On 2 April, IOM reached approximately 10,000 people with lifesaving aid in Aleppo, Syria. In cooperation with partners, IOM teams deployed in the Al-Ansari, Al-Kallaseh and Al-Mohandiseen neighbourhoods of Aleppo distributed over 7,410 core...

News Hour: Damning footage of the regime’s deadly chemical attack in Idlib that killed at least 86 civilians and left more than 200 injured earlier this week, is yet another confirmation of the failure of the...

News Hour: The United States has made slight adjustments to its military activities in Syria to strengthen protection of American forces following strikes last week on a Syrian airbase that have heightened tensions, U.S. officials tell...

News Hour: Allies of Damascus have threatened reprisals against any party that carries out “aggression” against Syria, two days after US missile strikes hit a Syrian airbase. “The aggression against Syria oversteps all red lines. We...

News Hour: IOM reached approximately 10,000 people with lifesaving aid in Aleppo, Syria. In cooperation with partners, IOM teams deployed in the Al-Ansari, Al-Kallaseh and Al-Mohandiseen neighbourhoods of Aleppo distributed over 7,410 core relief packages, including...