Syria’s army and its allies have broken a three-year rebel siege of two Shia towns in northwest Syria, the government and rebel groups said, cutting off a main supply route to nearby Turkey. The breakthrough comes after days of rapid military gains north of the major city of Aleppo, with[…]
The number of Syrian refugees stranded on Jordan’s border and waiting for permission to enter has risen to 20 000, with 4 000 to 5 000 more arriving in the remote desert area every month, the head of the UN refugee agency in the kingdom said on Sunday. In recent[…]
Syrian opposition members meeting in Riyadh have postponed until Friday a decision on whether to attend peace talks due to start in Geneva the same day, delegates said. “I believe tomorrow we will take a decision” on whether or not to attend the UN-brokered negotiations, said one delegate from the[…]
Syrian peace talks that were set to begin on Monday in Geneva will likely begin on Friday, said the UN’s envoy to Syria, who said he expected to send invitations on Tuesday. “We are definitely going to aim at starting the meetings on the 29th and invitations will be delivered[…]
A group of young Syrian refugees who had been living in squalid conditions at a refugee camp in France have been reunited with their families in Britain after a potentially landmark court ruling. The refugees left France after UK activists defeated the British government in a court case that argued[…]
Four months of Russian air strikes in Syria are taking their toll on rebel forces, strengthening the hand of a defiant President Bashar al-Assad as the United Nations struggles to get peace talks off the ground. Insurgents in the west are being hit harder, while in eastern and central parts[…]
Talks meant to be held in Geneva next week between both sides of Syria’s civil war – opposition groups and President Bashar al-Assad’s government – are far from certain to take place. Although the UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, briefed the Security Council in a closed meeting[…]
A third round of aid was delivered to besieged Syrian towns on Monday, although armed groups postponed one humanitarian team’s access saying they needed more time to make security arrangements, the United Nations said in a joint statement. The U.N., the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the[…]
At least 42 people have been killed in suspected Russian air strikes in Syria’s Raqqa province, activists and a monitoring group say. Raqqa, a city that currently has at least 300,000 residents, became a stronghold of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and its self-declared capital[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has been accused of carrying out a massacre in Syrian government-held districts in the eastern city of Deir Az Zor with a monitoring group saying more than 130 people were killed. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on[…]
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