UN, Syria and Western sanctions

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrived in Syria's capital, Damascus, on Tuesday for the first ...
Syria should not be used as a platform to extend other countries’ interests at the expense of the Syrian people,” said ...
U.S. and E.U. sanctions aimed at punishing the former Assad regime have made it more difficult for Syrian hospitals to ...
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk called on Wednesday for a Syrian national reconciliation process to ...
Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a ...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s order for Israeli troops to “take over” a buffer zone with Syria upended decades of ...
Saudi Arabia on Sunday called for the lifting of sanctions on Syria after meetings with top diplomats from the Middle East ...
A severely malnourished baby makes a full recovery, with vital assistance from a UNICEF-supported mobile health and nutrition ...
BERLIN (Reuters) - A high-ranking member of the Islamic State militant group in Syria has been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Germany, partly for alleged involvement in the ...