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The Netherlands and Canada have submitted a case against Syria to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over allegations of torture. Their application accuses the Syrian government of committing "countless violations of international law" since the country's civil war began in 2011. "Syrian...

El presidente ucraniano, Volodimir Zelensky, acusó este viernes a algunos líderes árabes de ignorar los horrores de la invasión rusa en Ucrania, durante un discurso en una cumbre de la Liga Árabe en Arabia Saudita. “Desafortunadamente, hay algunos en el mundo y aquí, entre ustedes, que cierran los...

Syria has been invited to attend the next meeting of regional cooperation organization the Arab League, to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on May 19. The invitation was issued by the Saudi government, which had long been opposed to normalizing relations with Syria's Bashar Assad regime and had even...

Jordan’s top diplomat said on Monday that regional talks with Syria are a step in the right direction to end a decade of the war-torn country’s political isolation and bring Damascus back into the Arab fold. Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi’s remarks came as Jordan hosted a meeting of envoys...

The international community and the Syrian government did not act quickly enough last month to help people in need in the rebel-held northwest after a deadly earthquake hit Turkey and conflict-ravaged Syria, a UN-backed commission said Monday. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on...

The devastating earthquake around the Turkish-Syrian border struck an area that is home to millions of refugees already battling desperate circumstances. The United Nations said Tuesday that it was trying to reach refugees affected by the 7.8-magnitude quake, though its existing aid programs are...

Syria on Thursday dismissed the global chemical weapons watchdog’s statement, which said that investigators had found “reasonable grounds to believe” the Syrian air force dropped two cylinders of chlorine gas in 2018 on then-rebel-held town of Douma. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical...

On New Year’s Eve, a small boat carrying more than 230 would-be migrants, most of them Syrians, broke down and began to sink after setting sail from the northern coast of Lebanon. After bringing them back to shore, to the port of Tripoli, where they recovered overnight, the Lebanese army loaded...

The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to say that Ankara is planning to deploy ground forces to attack Kurdish forces—the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the affiliated Syrian Kurdish groups—based across the border in Syria. Similar threats have been made in the past six...

Cholera has swept across Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq as the countries have struggled with devastated infrastructure, turmoil and housing large populations of people displaced by conflict. The hundreds of thousands of cases, worsened by conflict, poverty and climate change, have become a major setback...