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The office of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has dispatched 33 trucks loaded with core relief items to the Syrians displaced by conflict and trapped in their own territory.
Read More »UN chemical weapons experts to fly to Syria soon
A United Nations team is poised to fly to Syria to investigate allegations that chemical weapons have been used during the bloody civil war, the secretary-general’s office said Wednesday.
Read More »UN still negotiating with Syria on chemical weapons investigation
U.N. chemical weapons investigators are ready to visit Syria to investigate the use of chemical weapons, but a deal has yet to be reached with the Syrian government after two weeks of talks on safety assurances for the team, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Read More »Syrian PM calls on refugees to return home
Syrian Prime Minister Wael Al-Halqi on Tuesday called on the Syrians displaced by the ongoing conflict to come back home. “Syria can accommodate all her sons and will emerge stronger from the crisis,” he said during a cabinet meeting chaired by him.
Read More »Iraqi Ambassador to Serbia discusses mutual relations with Serbian Speaker
The Iraqi Ambassador to Serbia, Falah Abdul Hassan, discussed with the Serbian Parliament Speaker the mutual relations.
Read More »Turkey asks Iran for assistance to release kidnapped pilots
Turkey has requested Iran’s assistance to release the Turkish pilots kidnapped in Lebanon last week, according a Lebanese media report.
Read More »Turkey closes Beirut offices after kidnap of its two pilots
Turkey has closed its cultural centre and commercial office in Beirut after the kidnap of two Turkish Airlines pilots, Ankara’s ambassador to Lebanon said on Monday.
Read More »Syrian rebel commander visits Latakia province
The head of the rebel Free Syrian Army has visited the coastal province of Latakia, according to video footage, a show of force in President Bashar al-Assad’s family’s home province. Several villages in Latakia, which is a stronghold of Assad’s
Read More »Russia expects intl conference on Syria after September
Moscow foresees the international conference on Syria could start after September only, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said Monday. “It would hardly happen in September, because there will be other events, for instance, the UN General Assembly’s ministerial week,” he said.
Read More »Russian FM says dialogue is the only solution for Syrian conflict
The only way to end the ongoing violence in Syria lies in dialogue, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the UN-Arab League joint envoy to Syria
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