The United Nations said on Tuesday that Russia’s plan for a ceasefire will not mean any supplies get into besieged eastern Aleppo because Russia and Syria have not yet given guarantees of safety for aid [ More … ]
The Assad regime has partially approved a United Nations aid plan for Syria but refused to deliver urgently needed aids to the rebel-held part of Aleppo, diplomats and a U.N. official said on Thursday. Assad [ More … ]
The European Union proposed a new humanitarian plan in coordination with the United Nations for the besieged half of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, but said it required cooperation from all parties to [ More … ]
World powers must unite to stop the daily massacres in Aleppo as the collapse of U.S.-Russian peace efforts and increasing violence would be a setback for United Nations operations aimed at saving lives, the top [ More … ]
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that a U.S. Predator drone was in the area where a U.N. aid convoy was partially destroyed in Syria on Monday, while the US forces denied the accusation [ More … ]
The United Nations said on Tuesday that a humanitarian convoy in Syria was hit by “attacks” on Monday rather than “air strikes” as it had said earlier. “We are not in a position to determine [ More … ]
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that neither Russian nor Syrian war planes had struck a humanitarian convoy near Aleppo the previous day, saying the convoy’s whereabouts had only been known to militants on [ More … ]
The United Nations suspended aid convoys across Syria on Tuesday a day after an air strike hit relief trucks near the city of Aleppo, killing at least one aid worker and around 20 civilians, and [ More … ]
Speaking at the 71st annual session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday, he Saudi crown prince, Muhammad Bin Naif, said the kingdom ranked as the third country worldwide in terms of [ More … ]
After three days which saw a marked decrease in violence and no deaths in Syria, the first civilians since the start of the ceasefire agreement were killed on Thursday, according to the Syrian Observatory for [ More … ]
The UN has called on the Assad regime to “immediately” allow life-saving aid into eastern Aleppo, where about 300,000 people are living under siege, while Syrian rebels said they will do their part of the deal but [ More … ]
Assad regime is blocking aid delivery convoys into Aleppo which were sent under the terms of a nationwide ceasefire agreement, UN special envoy for Syria said on Thursday. Under the ceasefire agreement, made by US and [ More … ]
As a part of the Syria ceasefire agreement brokered by US and Russia, two convoys of aid for the Syrian city of Aleppo were waiting on Wednesday after crossing the Turkish border, held up by security [ More … ]
Turkey aims to send more than 30 trucks of food, children’s clothes and toys to the Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday, with a truce negotiated between the United States and Russia due to come [ More … ]
The UN has awarded contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to people closely associated with the Bashar al-Assad as part of an aid programme that critics fear is increasingly at the whim of the [ More … ]
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