Posts Tagged: UN Syria
UN Fears for 2.5 Million in Syria’s Rebel-Held Idlib as Fighting Escalates
An escalation in fighting and air strikes in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province leaves 2.5 million civilians with "no place else to go" within their shattered...
A Week of Infamy at the United Nations
JNS.org - When Syria ascended to the role of presidency of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament last Monday, Robert Wood, the US ambassador to the conference, called it “one...
UN Seeks Access to Douma in Eastern Ghouta, People ‘on Their Knees’
The UN humanitarian adviser for Syria called on Wednesday for access to the eastern Ghouta town of Douma, where he said some 80,000-150,000 civilians were...
UN Says Russia’s Eastern Ghouta Aid Plan Not Enough
A Russian plan for a five-hour pause in fighting in Syria's eastern Ghouta needs to be expanded to allow aid deliveries to enter and civilians and urgent...
UN Pleads for Truce to Avert ‘Massacre’ as Strikes Hit Syria’s Ghouta for Fifth Day
Warplanes pounded the last rebel enclave near the Syrian capital for a fifth straight day on Thursday as the United Nations pleaded for a ceasefire...
UN: Syrian Government Was Responsible for Sarin Gas Attack in April
Syrian forces have used chemical weapons more than two dozen times during the country's civil war, including in the deadly attack that led to US...
Aleppo Evacuations Continue as UN Prepares to Vote on Sending Monitoring Group
Thousands more people were evacuated from what remained of the smashed rebel enclaves in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday, as the U.N. Security...
UN to Deliver Aid to Syrians as Ceasefire Goes Into Effect
The UN is poised to begin delivering aid to people living in besieged areas of Syria, making use of a truce brokered by the US...
Syrian Opposition Marks 1,000 Days of Civil War, Says One Person Killed Every 11 Minutes
The Syrian opposition to the rule of President Bashar al-Assad marked 1,000 days since the outbreak of the country's civil war today, asserting that the...
UN Inspectors: End Syrian WMD Manufacturing Capacity by November 1
JNS.org - United Nations inspectors who will oversee the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons say that their first priority will be ending Syria's capacity...
UN Inspectors Return to Damascus
Jerusalem Post - UN chemical weapons inspectors returned to Syria on Wednesday to continue investigating allegations of chemical weapons use in the country's two-and-a-half-year conflict. A...
Russian Deal on Syria Only Makes Things Worse
Diplomacy has never witnessed anything like the dizzying and erratic sequence of events relating to Syria that began on Wednesday, Aug. 21 and ended 3½...
Obama’s Syria Debacle
I am not a war monger; I know the meaning of war, the death toll, the suffering, and the destruction of property along with the...
UN Report to Confirm Chemical Weapons Used in Syria, But Avoid Ascribing Blame
A report set to be released by the United Nations on a chemical weapons attack in Syria last month will not directly accuse the Syrian...
