#Syria

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths pushed the Security Council on Thursday to extend for 12 months its approval of a long-running humanitarian aid operation that delivers help to millions of ...

Russian jets bombed villages and towns near the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on Sunday, killing at least nine civilians and wounding dozens in a major flare-up of violence in ...

Dozens of Syrian migrants arrived in the Famagusta area overnight on Thursday, police said following an operation to tow their boat safely to shore. According to police, a total of 37 ...

Five members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine militant group were killed in an overnight explosion near Lebanon’s border with Syria, security sources told Reuters on ...

Another 39 people arrived in Cyprus from Syria on two boats on Friday. According to Steve Theodoulou, spokesman of the Famagusta Police Department, “around 1:25pm on Friday a boat was detected ...

There is no justice. Bashar al-Assad, the murderous Syrian dictator whose membership even the Arab League suspended twelve years ago, is off to Riyadh this week to celebrate his re-admission ...

A 17-year-old was remanded for eight days on Tuesday to facilitate investigations into the arrival of a boat transporting 18 irregular migrants from Syria the previous night. The boat was spotted 10 ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced a bill on Thursday intended to bar the American government from recognizing Bashar al-Assad as Syria’s president and to enhance Washington’...

Police arrested a 36-year-old man, suspected of captaining a boat with 26 persons on board that arrived off the coast of Famagusta, authorities said on Thursday. The boat was intercepted by ...

A boat transporting 26 illegal migrants was spotted at noon on Wednesday off the Cape Greco coast by maritime police. According to a police statement, coast guard vessels intercepted the boat ...

An Israeli air strike hit near Syria’s Aleppo airport early Wednesday, causing “material damage” and shutting down operations there, Syrian officials said, while regional intelligence sources said the attack ...

Syria’s transport ministry said on Tuesday it would re-route flights carrying earthquake aid following an overnight Israeli aerial attack that put Aleppo International Airport out of commission. The attack ...

Six people were killed in the latest earthquake to strike the border region of Turkey and Syria, authorities said on Tuesday, two weeks after a massive quake killed more than 47,000 ...

The head of the World Food Programme (WFP) on Saturday pressured authorities in northwestern Syria to stop blocking access to the area as it seeks to help hundreds of thousands ...

International aid agencies are stepping up efforts to help millions of homeless people, many sleeping in tents, mosques, schools or cars, 11 days after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria ...

A minute’s silence was observed by the council of ministers at the start of Wednesday’s session for the victims of the deadly earthquake in Turkey and Syria. President ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed to press on with rescue and recovery efforts more than a week after a powerful quake ripped through his country and neighbouring Syria, with an ...

Rescuers in Turkey pulled several people alive from collapsed buildings on Monday, a week after the country’s worst earthquake in modern history, but hopes of many more survivors were ...

Rescuers pulled a woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Turkey on Monday, broadcaster CNN Turk reported, a week after a major earthquake struck Turkey and Syria ...

The rescue of several survivors from the rubble of buildings in Turkey lifted the spirits of weary search crews on Friday, four days after a major earthquake struck the country ...

Shielded from 12 years of civil war, the small northwest Syrian town of Al-Tloul near the Turkish border has been devastated by Monday’s huge earthquake and ensuing flooding that has ...

The death toll from earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria this week passed 15,000 on Thursday amid anger from those left destitute and frustrated over the slow arrival of rescue teams. ...

Time is running out to save hundreds of families trapped under the rubble of buildings brought down by Monday’s earthquake, the head of the Syrian opposition-run civil defence service ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces devastated by two earthquakes that killed more than 7,200 people and left a trail of destruction across a ...