Iraq: Repatriations from notorious Syria camp ‘an example for the world’
Mar 03, 2023, at 06:37 pm
New York: UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday praised Iraq for repatriating its citizens from camps in northeast Syria holding people suspected of having ties to ISIL extremists, urging other governments “to take responsibility and to act”.
Fresh Israeli missile strikes kill 3 civilians in Syria
Apr 27, 2020, at 02:56 pm
Damascus/Xinhua/UNI: Three civilians were killed and four others wounded on Monday during fresh Israeli missile strikes in the countryside of Syria's capital Damascus, state news agency SANA reported.
Turkey kills 55 Syrian troops in Idlib: ministry
Feb 13, 2020, at 07:17 pm
Ankara/Xinhua: A total of 55 Syrian government soldiers were killed in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib amid escalation between Turkish and Syrian forces in the region, semi-official Anadolu Agency reported Thursday.
Blast kills several Turkish soldiers in northern Syria
Jan 23, 2020, at 07:21 pm
Damascus/Xinhua: Several Turkish soldiers were killed on Thursday by a blast that targeted them in the countryside of Syria's northern province of Raqqa, state news agency SANA reported.
Six soldiers killed, 13 others injured in car bomb explosion in Syria's Tell Abyad: source
Jan 16, 2020, at 10:23 pm
Antakya,Turkey/Sputnik: Six officers were killed and 13 others were injured in a car bomb explosion in front of the military headquarters in Syria's Tell Abyad border town, a source in the Free Syrian army told Sputnik on Thursday.
Terrorists attack humanitarian corridors in Syrian Idlib, Aleppo: Reports
Jan 16, 2020, at 07:14 pm
Beirut/Sputnik: Terrorist groups have attacked humanitarian corridors opened for the withdrawal of civilians from militant-controlled areas in the Syrian provinces of Idlib and Aleppo, media reported on Thursday, citing a military source.
Renewal of cross-border aid operation critical to northern Syria: UN relief chief
Nov 15, 2019, at 10:20 am
New York/IBNS: The top UN humanitarian official was in the Security Council on Wednesday to appeal for the renewal of an operation that delivers life-saving food and other aid relief to some four million civilians in northern Syria.
UNICEF urges governments to repatriate thousands of foreign children stranded in northeast Syria
Nov 05, 2019, at 10:39 am
New York/IBNS: The head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is appealing for countries to repatriate scores of foreign children who are stranded in northeast Syria in the wake of the Turkish-launched offensive which began last month.
Aug 08, 2019, at 09:54 am
New York, Aug 8 (IBNS): The Security Council has “utterly failed Syrian detainees and their families”, Amina Khoulani, Co-founder of Families for Freedom, told the Security Council on Wednesday, during a meeting focussed on those who have been jailed or gone missing across Syria, during years of brutal conflict.
Explosion targets Kurdish forces in Syria's Hasakah
Jul 17, 2019, at 05:07 pm
Damascus, Jul 17 (Xinhua/UNI) A car bomb went off on Wednesday near a Kurdish checkpoint in Syria's northeastern province of Hasakah, leaving injuries, a war monitor reported.
Jun 28, 2019, at 09:59 am
New York, June 28 (IBNS): The heads of 11 global humanitarian organizations warned on Thursday that the embattled rebel-held province of Idlib in Syria, stands on the brink of disaster, with three million civilian lives at risk, including one million children.
Almost 1,600 Syrians returned from Jordan, Lebanon in past 24 hrs: Russia
Jun 20, 2019, at 03:30 pm
Moscow, Jun 20 (Sputnik): Almost 1,600 Syrian refugees have returned to their home country from Jordan and Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Russian defence ministry's Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides and Refugee Migration Monitoring said in its daily bulletin on Thursday.
Biggest ever UN aid delivery in Syria provides relief to desperate civilians
Feb 16, 2019, at 09:52 am
New York, Feb 16 (IBNS): The biggest UN humanitarian convoy yet to operate inside Syria has successfully distributed aid to 40,000 desperate people in a hard-to-access desert camp near the country’s southern border with Jordan, the Organization announced on Friday.
Aid stepped up to Syria camp; new arrivals say terrorists blocked their escape
Feb 02, 2019, at 10:00 am
New York, Feb 2 (IBNS): Harrowing details continue to emerge of thousands of families who have risked their lives fleeing fighting in Syria’s last ISIL terrorist-held enclave, as UN humanitarians warned on Friday that children are still dying on their way to an overcrowded camp for the displaced, amid access problems and perishing cold.
Thousands risk lives fleeing fighting in Syria’s last ISIL stronghold
Jan 12, 2019, at 08:29 am
New York, Jan 12 (IBNS): North-east Syria is seeing increasing numbers of civilian casualties and large-scale displacement amid intensifying efforts to defeat extremists from ISIL, otherwise known as Da’esh, in Deir-ez-Zor governorate, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.
Major UN aid operation for 650,000 gets underway across Syria-Jordan border
Dec 11, 2018, at 08:30 am
New York, Dec 11 (IBNS): The United Nations began a four-week operation on Sunday, delivering lifesaving assistance to hundreds of thousands of Syrians in desperate need, from across the border in neighbouring Jordan.
New Syria fighting represents ‘giant powder keg’, warns aid veteran, as he leaves UN stage
Nov 30, 2018, at 08:14 am
New York, Nov 30 (IBNS): It is unclear if rockets fired into the Syrian city of Aleppo last weekend contained chemical toxins, a senior humanitarian adviser to the UN said on Thursday, adding that if they did, it would constitute a war crime.
UN chief ‘following very closely’ reports of chemical weapons use in Syria’s Aleppo
Nov 26, 2018, at 09:36 am
New York, Nov 26 (IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has underlined that any use of chemical weapons against civilians and under any circumstances is a clear violation of international law, amid reports of their alleged use in Syria’s war-battered Aleppo.
UN condemns Syrian 'war on children' as up to 30 reportedly killed in clashes
Nov 17, 2018, at 08:51 am
New York, Nov 17 (IBNS): The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has expressed alarm at reports that up to 30 children have been killed during recent violence in Al Shafa village, in eastern Syria.
UN chief appoints Norwegian diplomat as his new envoy for Syria
Nov 01, 2018, at 12:21 pm
New York, Nov 1 (IBNS): United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed veteran Norwegian diplomat Geir O. Pedersen as his next Special Envoy for Syria.
Oct 27, 2018, at 08:19 am
New York, Oct 27 (IBNS): The difficulties of “keeping everyone onboard” an agreed path to peace in Syria highlights that “radically different” approaches are likely doomed to failure, the out-going United Nations Special Envoy for the war-torn country warned on Friday.
Feeding families remains complex task in war-torn Syria – UN relief agency
Oct 24, 2018, at 09:31 am
New York, Oct 24 (IBNS): Nearly a million Syrians have headed home amid improving security, only to find houses destroyed and livelihoods lost said the United Nations emergency food relief agency on Tuesday, leaving many civilians still reliant on aid.
Syria: UN Humanitarian Coordinator calls for unimpeded access from within the country
Oct 05, 2018, at 10:04 am
New York, Oct 5 (IBNS): Highlighting the “complexities of the situation in Syria” with close to 13 million people in need of life-saving assistance, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in the country called on warring parties to allow access to all areas from within the country, so aid can reach those in need “fast and efficiently”.
Syrian children succumb to freezing temperatures while crossing into Lebanon – UNICEF
Jan 21, 2018, at 09:40 pm
Washington, Jan 21 (IBNS): At least 12 Syrians, including two children, lost their lives to the bitter cold in eastern Lebanon as they tried to enter the country, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported Saturday, warning that there are fears more could be trapped along the route.
Aid has not reached ‘a single soul’ in Syria’s besieged areas in December, says UN advisor
Dec 22, 2017, at 09:52 am
New York, Dec 22(Just Earth News): The list of people requiring life-saving medical help in Syria is getting shorter not because they were evacuated, but because they died, a senior United Nations advisor warned on Thursday.
Security Council renews Syrian cross-border relief convoys amid ongoing challenges for aid workers
Dec 20, 2017, at 09:41 am
New York, Dec 20(Just Earth News): The Security Council on Tuesday renewed the authorization for United Nations relief agencies and their partners to use routes across conflict lines and border crossings to deliver lifesaving assistance to millions in north-west and southern Syria through Turkey and Jordan.
Violence shuts schools, deprives children of medical care in Syria's East Ghouta, warns UNICEF
Dec 12, 2017, at 04:53 am
New York, Dec 11(Just Earth News): Five of the more than 130 children who require immediate medical evacuation have died as they could not access treatment they needed due to the continuing violence across Syria's eastern Ghouta, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reported, adding that most schools are closed there.
UN aid chief spotlights challenges delivering relief inside war-torn Syria, urges continued support
Nov 30, 2017, at 02:56 pm
New York, Nov 30(Just Earth News): The conflict in Syria – now into its seventh year, longer than World War II – continues to ratchet up misery on its people, with millions living in besieged and hard-to-reach areas, a third of the country’s children out of school, and over half of its health facilities rendered inoperable, the United Nations top relief official said on Wednesday.
UN agency gravely concerned by lack of medical services in Syria’s eastern Ghouta
Nov 23, 2017, at 09:56 am
New York, Nov 23(Just Earth News): Despite escalating violence and increasing humanitarian needs, life-saving medicines, medical equipment, and surgical supplies are being prevented from entering eastern Ghouta in Syria and the plan to transfer critically ill patients to hospitals elsewhere has not been approved, the United Nations health agency has warned.
Syria: UN agencies deliver critical food aid, medicines to families trapped in rural Damascus
Nov 01, 2017, at 01:20 pm
New York, Nov 1(Just Earth News): As part of a humanitarian aid convoy to besieged towns on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, United Nations agencies have delivered desperately needed health supplies, hygiene kits and food rations for tens of thousands of people.