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UNITED NATIONS — The top emergency relief official at the United Nations expressed new alarm on Tuesday at the humanitarian crisis caused by Syria’s civil war, telling the Security Council that despite some modest progress, both the…

Syria's deputy foreign minister has requested money and equipment from the international community to help with efforts to remove chemical weapons from his country. Faisal Mekdad was speaking at a meeting of the Organization for the…

LONDON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Tuesday his government fully supports a U.N. assessment implicating Syrian officials in war crimes. Hague said he supported an assessment made Monday by U.N. High…

The coastguard have reached a small boat packed with migrants adrift off the coast of southern Italy. They say about 120 Syrian migrants were picked up from the vessel, which had encountered rough seas. Large waves and strong winds…

This week Britain's House of Commons was told that a terrorist attack in Europe by jihadist fighters returning from Syria is "almost inevitable but may not happen for some time". The warning came from a leading terrorism expert and…

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Syrian government said on Wednesday that Western and Arab countries demanding that President Bashar Al-Assad step down should “wake up from their dreams,” Syria’s official news agency reported. The statement…

LONDON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Some of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal will be neutralized aboard a U.S. military ship, the organization overseeing the disposal operation said. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said the…

GENEVA — Syria’s conflict is creating a generation of damaged children, the United Nations warned Friday in a report on the plight of more than a million children who are refugees in neighboring countries, many of them deprived of access…

Tehran — Syria's prime minister arrived in Tehran Friday for talks with the leaders of close ally Iran ahead of a peace conference aimed at ending his country's civil war , the state broadcaster reported. During his three-day stay, Wael…

DAMASCUS/BEIRUT: Syrian troops recaptured the strategic town of Deir Atiyeh Thursday, less than a week after losing it, as fighting raged in the area ahead of planned peace talks in January. The seizure of Deir Atiyeh, on the…