Conflict

Humanitarian aid convoy to Syria’s Rukban camp: Mission Accomplished

New York, The United Nations and partners concluded a six-day humanitarian aid operation, providing lifesaving aid to around 50,000 mostly women and children living in southeast Syria’s Rukban camp – the first supplies they had received since January. more

There must be justice for victims of crimes in Syria, says head of UN body building cases for prosecution

New York: Those who committed the most serious crimes in Syria must be identified, and criminal case files must be built as the basis for prosecutions, the head of a United Nations body a ...

At Security Council, UN chief pushes for creation of body to determine perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria

New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday again called for the creation of an independent panel that could determine who used chemical weapons in Syria, ...

Fighting prevents UN and aid partners from returning to Syria’s war-battered east Ghouta

New York: Continuing fighting forced the postponement on Thursday of a United Nations inter-agency relief convoy to Douma, a neighborhood in Syria’s war-ravaged Eastern Ghouta, a UN ...

Syria: UN urges an end to hostilities, warns of grave and deepening humanitarian crisis

New York, Feb 7 (JEN): Senior United Nations officials in Syria warned on Tuesday of the dire humanitarian crisis in several parts of the country, calling on warring parties to immediatel ...

Syria: UN rights officials decry ‘devastating’ impact of surging violence on civilians

New York, Jan 20 (JEN): Concerned over the devastating impact of escalating violence in Syria, where dozens of people in eastern Ghouta have been killed in recent airstrikes, and schools ...