March 2021

A boy awaits departure during the release of another group of Syrian families from the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp which holds suspected relatives of Islamic State (IS) group fighters, in Hasakeh governorate of northeastern Syria, on…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday signaled support to replace decades-old authorizations for the use of military force in the Middle East, a little more than a week after he relied on the authorizations to carry out a…

An entire generation of children has been lost to the conflict in Syria. Today, Syria is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a child. During 10 years of war, close to 600,000 people, including 55,000 children, have been…

Pope Francis leaves after leading mass at Baghdad's Saint Joseph Cathedral on the second day of the first papal visit to Iraq on March 6, 2021. (AFP / Ayman HENNA) Under tight security, he…

GENEVA (Reuters) - A decade after Syria’s conflict began, families struggle more than ever to buy food while ambulances lack fuel to bring wounded and COVID-19 patients to hospital, Red Cross and Red Crescent officials said on Thursday.…

Nearly 12 million Syrians are either refugees or internally displaced — more than half of the pre-war population. (Reuters/File) 84% of those surveyed reported experiencing multiple…

BEIRUT (AP) — A suspected missile strike on an oil-loading facility used by Turkey-backed opposition forces in northern Syria appears to have sparked a massive fire across a large area where oil tankers are normally parked,…

A dog smells pieces of tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean Sea, on a beach in the Gdor Nature Reserve near Michmoret, Israel, Monday, March 1, 2021. The cleanup from the disastrous oil spill that has blackened most of the…

Syria's permanent mission to the United Nations has expressed to Newsweek a warning against U.S. strikes in the country in the wake of a new rocket attack against U.S. forces in neighboring Iraq. The latest attack, which…

A candlelight vigil is held in front of the Saudi Embassy in Washington on Oct. 2, 2019, to mark the first anniversary of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder. (Sarah Silbiger/Reuters) BERLIN — From the…