Syria

Lebanon abstained from voting on a UN resolution to establish an independent institution focused on learning the fate of around 130,000 missing or forcibly disappeared persons during the civil war in Syria. The resolution was adopted by…

The UN humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the 12-year conflict in Syria has pushed 90 percent of its population below the poverty line, and that millions face cuts in food aid next month because of a funding shortfall. Martin…

Syrian and Russian forces have launched air strikes on rebel bases in the country’s northwest, the defense ministry said Wednesday, amid a weeklong uptick in deadly violence in the area. Syrian forces “in cooperation with the friendly…

A Russian airstrike Tuesday targeted a military post of a group linked to Al-Qaeda in northwest Syria killing at least six militants, medical officials and a war monitor said. The airstrike on the Jabal Al-Zawiya area in the northwestern…

A UN aid convoy aid crossed from Assad regime-controlled northwest Syria to rebel-held areas on Friday for the first time since two devastating earthquakes in February. The 10-truck convoy reached rebel-held Al-Nayrab in Idlib province…

Kazakhstan said Wednesday it will stop hosting talks aimed at resolving Syria’s 12-year-old conflict. The abrupt announcement surprised Russia and other participants as they wrapped up the 20th round of talks in the capital of Astana.…

In war-torn Syria, parents of teenagers missing in a shipwreck off the Greek coast are clinging onto hope their children might be alive, days after the tragedy. A fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank off Greece’s…

The Jordanian army said on Friday that units on the country’s eastern border shot down a drone carrying weapon parts from Syria. Border guards, in coordination with other security agencies, spotted the drone and downed it on Jordan’s…

At least 125 Syrians were on board a migrant ship that sank off Greece this week, relatives and activists said Friday, as rescuers scoured the waters for hundreds feared missing. A blind 15-year-old boy and his 28-year-old sister from…

The US announced $920 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Syria during an aid conference in Brussels on Thursday, the State Department said. The announcement brings the total US humanitarian assistance to Syria and the…