Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Syria

Relatives fear worst with four men and a boy missing after Mediterranean ship disaster

Four men and a 14-year-old boy from the Sheikhi family set out for Europe

The Independent UK

Donors stump up $6.1 bn for Syrians, as EU stays anti-Assad

BRUSSELS - International donors led by the EU on Thursday pledged 5.6 billion euros ($6.1 billion) for Syrian refugees, but Brussels stressed it will not ease its stance on President Bashar al-Assad's government.

Bangkok Post

Families of missing Syrians urge UN to create institution for the 'disappeared'

Three Syrians whose family members were forcibly disappeared during the civil war were at the United Nations this week to lobby for the creation of an Independent Institution on Missing Persons in the Syrian Arab Republic. The UN General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution calling for the…

France 24

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Refugee Week: Ben and Jerry’s creates ice cream with refugee entrepreneurs

The new flavour was inspired by the food and culture of Morocco, Afghanistan and Syria

Evening Standard

Donor nations scramble to find billions of dollars of funding for Syrian aid

Donor nations from across the globe are scrambling to find billions in dollars to extend their aid commitment to millions of Syrians who have been battered by hunger, poverty, civil war and a massive earthquake

The Independent UK

‘The people don’t want us’: inside a camp for Iraqis returned from Syrian detention

Exclusive: As Iraq steps up transfers from al-Hawl, interviews with returnees raise questions over a process mired in complexities

The Guardian - UK

‘We felt that we are one’: how Turkish musicians welcomed Syrian refugees

Anti-Syrian sentiment has surged in Turkey, but the music scene has gone the opposite way – embracing cultural acceptance and cohesion

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Interview: Why the Islamic State group is 'returning to its roots' in the Syrian desert

Some of the remaining members of the Islamic State organisation – those who escaped death or imprisonment after losing their territory in 2019 – have made their way to Badia, a vast desert in the centre of Syria. The IS group carries out frequent attacks on the nomadic Bedouins who…

France 24

As conditions for Syrians worsen, aid organizations struggle to catch the world's attention again

Aid agencies will struggle to draw the world’s attention back to Syria at an annual donor conference hosted by the European Union in Brussels for humanitarian aid to Syrians

The Independent UK

UN food agency says will slash Syria aid by about half

World Food Programme funding crisis means aid will be cut to 2.5 million of 5.5 million people reliant on agency.

Al Jazeera

Helicopter ‘mishap’ injures 22 American troops in Syria

A military statement said service members were receiving treatment and 10 were moved to “higher care facilities” outside the region

The Independent UK

Helicopter accident in Syria leaves 22 American troops injured, US military says

A military statement said service members were receiving treatment and 10 were moved to “higher care facilities” outside the region

The Independent UK

US military says helicopter accident in northeastern Syria left 22 American troops injured

The United States military says a helicopter accidents in northeastern Syria over the weekend has left 22 U.S. service members injured to various degree

The Independent UK

US says 22 soldiers injured in Syria helicopter accident

Enemy fire not reported at time of US helicopter ‘mishap’ in northeast Syria where hundreds of US soldiers are based.

Al Jazeera

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Gillian Anderson and Stanley Tucci back calls to rescue British families in Syria

Estimated 60 children among those trapped in detention camps since Islamic State collapse

Evening Standard

Vanessa Kirby, Stanley Tucci and Gillian Anderson back campaign to repatriate UK families detained in Syria

British children are exposed to violence and trafficking, advocates say

The Independent UK

Iraq urges countries to repatriate their citizens from camp housing families of extremist IS group

Iraq is urging countries that have citizens in a sprawling camp in northeast Syria housing tens of thousands of mostly women and children linked to the Islamic State group to repatriate their nationals

Daily Record

Scot leading humanitarian response to Syria earthquake says it was worse than war zone

Erlend Linklater told how the killer 7.8 magnitude earthquake earlier this year did more damage in 80 seconds than cities flattened by months of military bombing.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Daily Mirror

Comedian Alex Brooker close to tears after meeting children who fled war-torn Syria

Soccer Aid star Alex Brooker formed a special bond with a disabled girl called Elan who had a 3D hand fitted thanks to a partnership with UNICEF at the Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan

The Independent UK

Syria's Kurds to try IS fighters after their home countries refused to repatriate them

The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria says hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group held in prisons around the region will be put on trial after their home countries refused to repatriate them

France 24

Trinidad and Tobago: From the Caribbean to the caliphate

The twin island state of Trinidad and Tobago lies between the South American coast of Venezuela and the West Indies. Home to roughly 1.5 million inhabitants of African and Indian descent, the tiny Caribbean nation has one of the world’s highest volunteer rates for the Islamic State (IS) group. Between…

The Independent UK

A little white pill, Captagon, gives Syria's Assad a strong tool in winning over Arab states

Western governments have been frustrated by the red carpet treatment Arab countries have been giving Syria’s president, fearing their reconciliation with the pariah state will undermine efforts to push a solution to its long-running civil war

The Guardian - UK

Hope for Syrian cancer patients as cross-border treatment resumes in Turkey

North-west Syria regains access to radiotherapy for first time since Earthquake devastated the region but backlog means many remain in limbo

Al Jazeera

‘Enduring commitment’: Key takeaways from US-GCC joint statement

Communique coinciding with Antony Blinken’s visit to Saudi Arabia backs two-state solution based on 1967 borders.

Al Jazeera

Future unknown but Syrians in Turkey ‘relieved’ after Erdogan win

Initially welcomed, Syrians are increasingly concerned by anti-refugee sentiment and the threat of forced repatriations.

1 … 144 145 146 147

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the UN General Assembly

239 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.