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International human rights organizations fear that detained Syrian journalist and human rights activist Nour al-Shalo is in danger of being executed on Friday. The 28-year-old from Aleppo has allegedly been charged with treason and…

A recent report by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic has revealed the horrific human costs associated with the use of incendiary weapons on civilian populations. Designed to produce fire and heat…

Yemenis displaced by conflict receive humanitarian aid in the northern province of Hajjah (AFP/File photo) The UK government announced this week that it will cut its annual foreign aid spending from 0.7 percent of GDP…

Withholding of more precise data raises eyebrows as rights groups remain sceptical of geographic coordinates in densely-populated areas. A handout image released by the British Ministry of Defence shows a screengrab of a video of…

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has upset MPs and lords by cutting the UK’s international aid budget from 0.7 per cent of GDP to 0.5 per cent. Baroness Sugg has resigned from her role as a Foreign Office minister, calling the planned £4billion…

as delivered New York, 25 November 2020 Thank you, Madam President. I will focus today on five areas: first, the situation of displaced people across Syria as winter approaches; second, the humanitarian impact of the economic crisis,…

Syrian refugees huddle around a fire to keep warm in Idlib, Syria on 28 December 2019 Millions of displaced people across northern Syria will need assistance during a winter that is expected to be "incredibly hard",…

A third of displaced Syrians lack adequate shelter and essentials for cold weather in Idlib and Aleppo, the UN says. Displaced Syrians living in tents at a squatter camp in Idlib The United Nations says urgent relief…

Syrian war protest at the White House in 2013. Photo: James Bovard. How many Syrians did you vote to kill on Election Day? Thanks to our perverse political system, the answer will be revealed over the next four years if…

If you like confusion in foreign policy take a new look at Syria, the country that has the worst civil war since the one that raged in Angola in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Syria is now a near total wreck. Four of its historically important…