Syria

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türkon Thursday expressed solidarity with the people of Lebanon and Syria acknowledged the traumas both nations have endured over decades. Volker Türk spoke in…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS – UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric on Tuesday reported that the High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is in Damascus as part of a wider visit to Syria and Lebanon. Mr. Turk is scheduled to meet…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS - UNICEF said on Tuesday that Syria’s lethal legacy of landmines and other explosives left over from years of conflict has killed over 100 children in past month alone, as it called on the international…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS - UN humanitarians warned on Thursday that over 125,000 refugees have returned to Syria “full of hope after years of exile”, only to find themselves confronted by desperate conditions since the fall of the…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS – UN Commission of Inquiry team on Syria on Thursday concluded a first visit to the country, taking crucial steps to foster dialogue and engagement with the new caretaker government. Commissioner Hanny…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS – UN Special Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen and the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher on Wednesday briefed the members of the UN Security Council in New York on the situation in Syria, Gaza and…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS - UN human rights office on Tuesday has urged restraint in Syria after reports that some individuals from the country’s Alawite community and other minority groups have been targeted and killed.  OHCHR…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS - World Health Organization on Monday said that the first humanitarian air charter of the year has landed in Damascus, carried over 32 tons of medicines and emergency kits. The supplies are part of the…

By Anjali Sharma WASHINGTON - Syria interim Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani on Saturday described his visit to Saudi Arabia, the first official trip abroad in his current capacity, as “historic”. All-Shaibani said that during the…

By Anjali Sharma UNITED NATIONS – UNICEF and its partner UN teams on Friday pressed ahead with a lifesaving cholera vaccine campaign in Al Hol detention camp complex, despite rumours of attacks by ISIL extremists and uncertainty across…