Syria

The UN food agency said Tuesday it will slash aid to Syrians in need of basic food supplies by around half due to a lack of funding. “An unprecedented funding crisis in Syria is forcing the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to…

Iraq urged countries on Monday to repatriate their citizens from a sprawling camp in Syria housing tens of thousands linked to the extremist Daesh group, saying it has become a “source for terrorism.” The statements were made during a…

Twenty-two US service members were injured in a helicopter “mishap” in northeast Syria on Sunday, the US military said late on Monday, without disclosing the cause of the incident or detailing the severity of the injuries. The US…

Turkish shelling in northern Syria early Monday hit a vehicle killing one Russian soldier and wounding several others, Syrian Kurdish media and an opposition war monitor reported. Monday’s shelling came after a day of violence between…

Huddled inside a tent in rebel-held northwestern Syria, Umm Khaled says she fears her baby will die unless she gets specialist treatment in neighboring Turkiye for a congenital heart defect. Seriously ill Syrians in the country’s last…

Lebanon’s former president Michel Aoun has traveled to Syria to shore up relations with Damascus after his party rejected Hezbollah’s preferred presidential candidate. The Free Patriotic Movement said Aoun, its leader, “traveled on…

A group of women and their children plan to take the Australian government to court in a bid to be freed from Syrian detention camps, it was reported on Sunday. Of the 40 Australian mothers and children being held in the Roj camp in…

Fifty Daesh terrorists and 168 Iraqi members of terrorist families were repatriated from Syria to Iraq on Saturday, an Iraqi official said. Iraqi authorities “received 50 members of the Daesh from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),”…

The Semalka Border Crossing between Iraq and Syria is set to reopen on Monday after being closed since May, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Saturday. The Semalka administration announced that work will be resumed at…

An Australian child stuck in a Syrian detention camp has written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, pleading to be brought home, the Guardian reported on Thursday. The child, who is less than 10 years old, told Albanese “please don’t…