Syria

Since 2014, the UN has been operating in northwest Syria, providing people with life-saving humanitarian assistance and essential resources like shelter items, medicines, food, and water. Two weeks ago, Russia vetoed the nine-year-old UN mandate that allows for the distribution of support and resources to the 4.1 million people in…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Brigham researchers and international collaborators identified the association with younger age and advanced stage at diagnosis, coupled with the trauma associated with displacement, as likely contributors to the disparities. War and other conflicts impact health in ways that extend far beyond an active combat zone. In…

Author of the article: The Associated Press Edith M. Lederer Published Jul 24, 2023  •  3 minute read FILE - Trucks loaded with United Nations humanitarian aid for Syria following a devastating earthquake are parked at Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, in Syria's Idlib province, on Feb. 10, 2023.…

Two Palestinians arrested, one teenager shot dead after Israeli settlers killed: army JERUSALEM: Israeli forces on Tuesday arrested two Palestinians suspected of shooting dead an Israeli settler near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, where violence has surged since early last year. Batsheva Nigri, 40, was killed on Monday in…

Back in 2009, I dared to forecast that if the rampant desertification process gripping the Syrian steppe was not halted soon, it could eventually become a trigger for social turmoil and even for a civil war. I was being interviewed by the journalist and scholar Francesca de Chatel- and was…

Washington’s top general on Tuesday threw cold water on questions about the need for additional military deployments to the Middle East to fend off a series of tense encounters with US aircraft initiated by Russian pilots over Syria. “There’s been an uptick, but I wouldn’t overstate it too much,” Chairman…

Updated July 19, 2023 at 2:58 AM Published July 19, 2023 at 2:57 AM WASHINGTON - A Russian warplane closely approached an American MC-12 reconnaissance aircraft over Syria, a US commander said on Tuesday, describing it as an “unsafe” action that put the US crew at risk. This was the…

The United Nations has described as “unacceptable” the conditions placed by Syria in an offer to allow aid to keep reaching rebel-held territory. Syria’s ambassador to the UN said on Thursday his government would let aid continue entering the coun­try via the Bab al-Hawa crossing from Turkey. Members of the…

OPEC producer Iraq is considering reconstructing an old pipeline through neighboring Syria to export crude from a Mediterranean port to Europe and other countries, an Iraqi official was reported on Tuesday as saying. The pipeline, which was commissioned in 1952, links the central Iraqi Kirkuk oilfields with the Northwestern Syrian…

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