Hamas’ Office of Refugee Affairs said that restrictions imposed on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and Syria have meant their numbers have forced them to flee. In its sixth annual...

Three days into the demonstrations, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad ordered the military to attack the protesters.

An Iraqi official in Baghdad has revealed on Thursday that several foreign intelligence delegations have arrived recently in Iraq, most of which are European. They came to Iraq in...

The EU saw 580,800 first-time asylum application in 2018, a drop of 11 per cent, the bloc’s statistical office reported on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. The number of applicants...

The United Nations won almost $7 bn in aid pledges for Syria on Thursday, overcoming fatigue among donors after eight years of civil war and sidestepping divisions over how...

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced yesterday morning that 3,000 Daesh fighters had surrendered in the town of Al-Baghuz over a 24-hour period. Mustafa Bali, SDF spokesperson and director of...

Laila Alhusini was 26 when she decided to leave her home in Damascus, Syria in the autumn of 2000 to pursue new opportunities in the United States. Although Alhusini...

The final battles to rid Syria of Daesh are aiming for a military victory and not taking in to consideration the lives of abducted Yazidis women who have been...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights said the regime had killed nearly 900 aid workers since March 2011, while some 4,000 others remain in detention or enforced disappearance, the...

The Pentagon announced yesterday that it has allocated $300 million to support US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighting Daesh as well as $250 million to secure the borders of...

The Israeli occupation army yesterday claimed that it had uncovered a secret Hezbollah cell which was preparing to strike it from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, a statement reported...

The Syrian army, aided by Russian warplanes, attacked rebel-held towns in northwestern Syria on Wednesday in the most extensive bombardment in months against the last remaining rebel bastion in...

The United States is not discussing a Turkish offensive in northeast Syria with Turkey and believes no such operation is needed to address Ankara’s security concerns, a US official...

Israel has imposed itself through successive wars and military victories since the 1948 war. Israel has also exploited American support which is committed to making it militarily superior to...

The Syrian army aided by Russian warplanes shelled rebel-held towns in northwestern Syria in the most extensive bombardment in weeks against the last remaining rebel bastion in the country,...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun yesterday called on the European Union and France to help return Syrian refugees to their country. “As many as 167,000 displaced Syrians have returned from...

A senior Work Bank official said that wars that broke out between 2010 and 2018 in many Arab countries have caused at least $900 billion in lost economic opportunities....

Most people wouldn’t consider the global refugee crisis a laughing matter, but American comic actor Ben Stiller says humour can help draw people’s attention to it, Thomson Reuters Foundation...

Daesh faced imminent defeat in its final enclave on Tuesday as hundreds of jihadist fighters and their families surrendered and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said the battle was...

The UN on Tuesday expressed grave concern over humanitarian conditions of YPG/PKK-held Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria, Anadolu Agency reports. Babor Baloch, spokesman for UN High Commissioner for Refugees...

The plight of men and boys in Syria who have experienced sexual violence is going unrecognised, a new report by Lawyers and Doctors for Human Rights (LDHR) has highlighted...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif yesterday congratulated Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force, Major General Qasem Soleimani, on receiving the Order of Zulfiqar medal of...

US Senator Lindsey Graham yesterday pledged to push Washington to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over Syria’s Golan Heights, the New York Times reported. During a tour near the Syrian area,...

The Government of Japan contributed an additional $7 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on Sunday. In a...

Around 20,000 Iraqis in Syria, including women and children who fled Daesh’s last enclave, are expected to be sent home in weeks under an agreement with Baghdad, a senior...

Daesh’s final enclave in eastern Syria was pounded with air strikes and artillery on Monday in a US-backed assault aimed at wiping out the last shred of its territorial...

Last year was the deadliest yet for children in Syria, with more than 1,100 killed by fighting, the United Nations said on Monday, with the bloody conflict about to...

This week is the eighth anniversary of the conflict in Syria. The death toll is well over half a million and over half the population has been internally or...

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif yesterday denied resigning as a result of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s trip to Tehran last month, Arabi21 reported. Zarif told an Iraqi television station that...

The country of the million martyrs will not stand helpless in the face of those who want to disparage it and its noble perseverant people who have sacrificed millions...

Two Belgian women who joined Daesh in Syria said on Sunday they were losing hope they will ever go home after a Belgian court overturned a ruling to repatriate...

A group of Moroccans held in northern Syria by US-backed SDF forces have returned home, the SDF said, in a rare case of a foreign government taking back citizens...