Syria: Latest school attack in Idlib 'an outrage' and 'one more scar on future' – UNICEF chief
Oct 28, 2016, at 04:15 am
New York, Oct 27 (Just Earth News): The head of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday that the latest school attack in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib may be “the deadliest†one since the war begin more than five years ago, and is a war crime if deliberate.
In war-torn Syria, three million children out of school or at risk of dropping out – UNICEF
Oct 25, 2016, at 04:44 am
New York, Oct 24 (Just Earth News): With the start of the school year and the number of school attacks exceeding 4,000 in war-ravaged Syria, more than 1.7 million children there remain out of school and another 1.3 million are at a risk of dropping out, according to new education data.
Syria: Conflict plunging to new ‘lows,’ UNICEF says, deploring killing of school children
Oct 13, 2016, at 12:53 pm
New York, Oct 13 (Just Earth News): Deploring yesterday’s deadly attack on a primary school in the Syrian city of Darra, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has reiterated its call on all parties to the conflict to abide by their obligations under international humanitarian law and protect children and schools.
Canada's population soars with immigrant and refugee arrivals
Oct 10, 2016, at 12:06 am
Toronto, Oct 9 (IBNS): Statistic Canada says record number of immigrants and refugees arriving on Canadian shores have helped push Canada’s official population over 36 million as of July 1.
Syria: Time running out to protect those trapped in eastern Aleppo, UN aid chief warns
Oct 03, 2016, at 01:31 pm
New York, Oct 3 (Just Earth News): Warning of an urgent humanitarian situation in Syria's eastern Aleppo city, the United Nations humanitarian chief today reiterated a call for a cessation of violence, medical evacuation of hundreds of patients in critical conditions, as well as safe, full, regular and unimpeded humanitarian access.
Syria: Joint UN-Red Crescent relief convoy reaches besieged cities for first time in five months
Sep 27, 2016, at 02:01 pm
New York, Sept 27 (Just Earth News): The United Nations and Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) have delivered life-saving food aid to 60,000 people under siege in four Syrian towns, their first supplies since April, but extreme concern persists for 250,000 people trapped in Aleppo, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Monday.
Syria: UN suspends aid after convoy attacked
Sep 20, 2016, at 11:03 pm
Aleppo, Sept 20 (IBNS): The United Nations has decided to suspend aid convoys in Syria, media reports said on Tuesday.
Syria: UN relief chief 'disappointed' that aid workers still unable to safely access eastern Aleppo
Sep 20, 2016, at 04:21 am
New York, Sept 19 (Just Earth News): Expressing disappointment that humanitarian actors have not been able to reach eastern Aleppo in Syria, the United Nations humanitarian chief urged all parties to the conflict to facilitate regular and sustained access to the besieged and hard-to-reach areas across the country.
Senior ISIL leader killed in coalition strike
Sep 17, 2016, at 01:49 pm
Washington, Sept 17 (IBNS): A Sept. 7 coalition precision strike near Raqqah, Syria, targeted and killed "Dr. Wa'il," also known as Wa'il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, one of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's most-senior leaders, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said in a statement issued on Friday.
Syrian rebel blows up himself, comrades while taking selfie
Sep 17, 2016, at 03:39 am
London, Sept 16 (IBNS): A Syrian rebel accidentally blew up himself and his comrades when he was taking selfie with a mobile phone that was probably connected to a bomb, media reports said.
Aug 25, 2016, at 01:47 am
Damascus, Aug 24 (IBNS): Conjoined twins Nawras and Moaz, who were evacuated from the suburbs of Syria's Damascus city, have died, media reports said.
Syria: Citing lack of action, UN envoy cuts short humanitarian taskforce meeting
Aug 19, 2016, at 01:30 pm
New York, Aug 19 (Just Earth News): The United Nations envoy for Syria abruptly suspended the regular international humanitarian taskforce meeting in Geneva on Thursday shortly after it started, saying it made “no sense†to continue unless there is a pause in the fighting so aid convoys could reach besieged areas of the war-ravaged country.
Diary from Syria: An eyewitness account of broken families, grief and survival
Aug 13, 2016, at 12:24 pm
New York, Aug 13 (Just Earth News): The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) supports more than 4 million people inside Syria with food assistance. Heading its operation there since December last year is Swiss national Jakob Kern.
Syria: UN refugee agency 'gravely concerned' by attacks on civilians, internally displaced persons
Aug 12, 2016, at 04:34 am
New York, Aug 11 (Just Earth News): The United Nations refugee agency has expressed grave concern at the dire situation of civilians in the Syrian city of Aleppo and at attacks on internally displaced people (IDP) settlements in its Idleb Governorate.
UN team in Jordan uses cranes to hoist relief aid to Syrian refugees at sealed border
Aug 06, 2016, at 05:16 am
New York, Aug 5 (Just Earth News): Syrians stranded at a sealed border with Jordan have received life-saving food and other supplies from the United Nations in a unique operation that saw aid hoisted by crane and monitored by drones across the closed frontier.
Aid agencies ready to help ease suffering in 'iconic' Aleppo, once truce is secured – UN envoy
Aug 05, 2016, at 12:04 pm
New York, Aug 5 (Just Earth News): As fighting in and around battle-scarred Aleppo intensifies, along with diplomatic efforts to secure a truce, United Nations agencies and their partners are “ready, willing and able†to rush aid to the desperate people trapped there, a senior UN envoy said on Thursday, stressing that a humanitarian pause is critical, both to allow relief workers to enter the area, and for civilians to leave voluntary.
Syria: Militant attack kills 8
Aug 04, 2016, at 04:33 pm
Damascus, Aug 4 (IBNS): Rocket shells fired terrorists of “Jaish al-Islam†in Syria's Damascus area has killed one people killed, media reports said.
Aug 03, 2016, at 12:43 pm
New York, Aug 3 (Just Earth News): Deeply disturbed by reports that five hospitals and a blood bank have been hit by airstrikes in Syria, the United Nations on Tuesday reiterated its call on all parties to the conflict to end the destruction of medical facilities and other civilian infrastructure.
Rebels shelling kills 30 in Syria
Aug 02, 2016, at 10:45 pm
Aleppo, Aug 2 (IBNS): At least 30 people were killed in shelling by rebels who targeted regime controlled areas of Aleppo city in Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday.
Some 25,000 people displaced by military attacks in western Aleppo – UNICEF
Aug 02, 2016, at 01:15 pm
New York, Aug 2 (Just Earth News): About 25,000 people, including more than 12,000 children, have been displaced last night from a neighbourhood in western Aleppo City by intense military attacks initiated by armed opposition groups, a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) official in Syria said on Monday, calling on the warring parties to do their utmost to protect all civilians.
Syria: Russian chopper shot down
Aug 01, 2016, at 10:23 pm
Moscow/Idlib ,Aug 1 (IBNS): A Russian helicopter was shot down in Syria's Idlib province on Monday, media reports said.
UNICEF deplores ‘shocking’ attacks in northern Syria towns that leave scores of civilians dead
Jul 30, 2016, at 03:19 pm
New York, July 30 (Just Earth News):The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has deplored recent shocking attacks in northern Syrian cities of Qamishli and Idlib, which killed more than 60 people including many children; reiterating that all parties to the conflict should respect international humanitarian law and protect children and civilians.
Proposed humanitarian corridors in Aleppo must be guaranteed by all sides, says UN relief chief
Jul 29, 2016, at 01:37 pm
New York, July 29 (Just Earth News): Amid reports that Aleppo is ‘de facto besieged,’ as the war-battered city is now almost completely encircled by Syrian troops, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator on Thursday reiterated his demand for safe, regular and sustained access to the quarter of a million people trapped behind the front lines, and stressed that “all options must be considered.â€
Syria: Militant attack kills 44
Jul 28, 2016, at 09:04 pm
Qamishli, July 28 (IBNS): A militant attack at al-Qameshli city of northeastern Syria killed at least 44 people on Wednesday, media reports said on Thursday.
Recent attacks on hospitals in Aleppo 'can amount to war crimes' – UNICEF
Jul 27, 2016, at 11:41 am
New York, July 27 (Just Earth News): The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reiterated on Tuesday that attacks on health facilities are a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and can amount to war crimes, in response to the recent airstrikes on four hospitals and a blood bank in eastern Aleppo city in Syria.
Syria: UN aid chief calls for weekly, 48-hour humanitarian truce in Aleppo
Jul 26, 2016, at 02:09 pm
New York, July 26 (Just Earth News): Citing the alarming humanitarian conditions across Syria, the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator on Monday urged fresh momentum and action to protect civilians and ensure sustained aid access “before it's too late,†including through the establishment of a weekly, 48-hour pause of the fighting in eastern Aleppo, where food supplies are expected to run out next month.
Syria: Mother, child killed in rocket shells fired by Jabhat al-Nusra-linked terrorist groups
Jul 26, 2016, at 03:33 am
Aleppo, July 2 (IBNS) A mother and her child was killed were killed in rocket shells firing in Syria's Aleppo city on Monday.
Germany: Syrian refugee arrested for killing wife with machete
Jul 25, 2016, at 03:43 pm
Berlin, July 25 (IBNS) German authorities have said they arrested a Syrian asylum-seeker for killing a woman with a machete in south-western part of the European nation on Sunday, media reports said.
Syria: After week of ‘horrific’ incidents, UNICEF calls for end to all violence against children
Jul 22, 2016, at 01:37 pm
New York, July 22 (Just Earth News): In a week marked by the brutal on-camera murder of a 12-year-old boy in Aleppo and the killing of more than 20 children killed during air strikes in Manbij, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for an immediate end to all forms of violence against children in Syria and urged all parties to the conflict there to make every effort to avoid the loss of civilian lives.
Syria: Food convoy reaches Serghaya, as UN agencies urge protection of aid workers and sites
Jul 20, 2016, at 01:20 pm
New York, July 20 (Just Earth News): As humanitarian convoys gain access to hard-to-reach areas in Syria, some United Nations agencies are speaking out about fresh dangers to aid workers.