Syria

The organisation called for the international community – particularly countries that have already benefitted from decent vaccination roll-outs – to urgently support and fund relevant authorities and NGOs in the fight against the pandemic and to help impacted children. Save the Children earlier this month warned of a sharp increase…

Turkey is seeking closer coordination with Russia on regional issues, particularly in Syria, where it hopes to work with Moscow to eject US forces from eastern Syria. It is not clear yet what Ankara’s latest plan is, as in the past it has invaded and ethnically cleansed parts of northern…

Washington suspended its diplomatic presence in Syria in 2012 and later imposed sanctions on President al-Assad’s government. The United States has no plans to “normalise or upgrade” diplomatic relations with the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and also does not encourage others to do so, a US State Department…

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad meets with the Syrian cabinet in Damascus. Photo: Reuters4:3 Image: Read More

Author of the article: Reuters Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN — Unidentified aircraft hit a base run by Iranian-backed militias in Syria’s eastern province of Deir al Zor near the Iraqi border where Tehran has in the last year expanded its military presence, residents and military sources said on Monday. They said…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Hospitals in the Syrian capital Damascus and the coastal province of Latakia have reached capacity due to rising coronavirus admissions, a health official said Sunday. "We have started transferring COVID-19 patients from the province of Damascus to the (central) province of Homs, and from Latakia to…

   Emergency Response Amman, 24 September 2021  – As Northwest Syria faces a second wave of COVID-19, hospitals and COVID-19 Community Treatment Centers (CCTCs) in the opposition-held area are unable to cope. Intensive Care Units are full, while COVID-19 Centers report an over 95% occupancy rate. Only a mere 2.5%…

The UN human rights office says the death toll is ‘certainly an under-count’ due to a strict methodology used. At least 350,209 people have been killed in Syria’s 10-year war, the United Nations human rights office has said, calling the tally an “undercount” as it released its first report since…

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AL-HOL CAMP, Syria — The killings have taken on a creeping sense of inevitability, guards say. No one admits to hearing them, let alone knowing who is responsible. On a recent morning, officials inside al-Hol detention camp said it was still too dangerous to try recovering the latest pair of…