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Asia Pacific
The bittersweet taste of home: Former ISIL wife returns to Kazakhstan
More than 600 family members of ISIL fighters have been repatriated from Syria to Kazakhstan over the last three years,…
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Middle East
Concerned over civilian deaths, UN spokesperson welcomes ‘any successes’ against ISIL terror group
Following an attack by United States Special Forces in northwestern Syria that culminated in the death of the leader of…
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Middle East
Griffiths to Security Council: ‘Your responsibility is not over’ to Syrian people
The UN and its partners need to reach more Syrians with immediate life-saving aid, the UN relief chief warned the…
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Middle East
UNICEF providing aid for children caught up in Syria prison siege
Boys and girls caught up in intense fighting which raged for six days around a besieged prison in northeast Syria,…
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Middle East
Military solution for Syria remains ‘an illusion’: Pedersen
With no shifts in the frontlines in almost two years, the UN Special Envoy for Syria warnedt he Security Council about “a strategic stalemate” in the nearly 11-year-old war. For Geir Pedersen,…
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Middle East
Syria: 700 child detainees held in prison under siege
Four days after ISIL terrorists launched apparently coordinated attacks on a large prison in northeast Syria in a bid to…
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Middle East
Senior humanitarian describes ‘horror scenes’ in Syria camps
Well below zero temperatures hitting Syria this week have turned camps for internally displaced people into disaster zones, the UN Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator warned on Monday. Speaking by videoconference to journalists in New York, Mark Cutts said humanitarians had seen “some…
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Middle East
Conviction of top Syrian intelligence official ‘a landmark leap forward’
UN human rights officials have welcomed the “historic” conviction on Thursday by a German court of a former senior Syrian…
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Middle East
Each day ‘a new adventure’ for UN humanitarian air service worker
“Every day is a new adventure”, as part of the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) in Syria, according to a young staff member who helps aid workers check in, board and fly safely…
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Middle East
UN disarmament chief urges Syria to come clean on chemical weapons
Syria’s declaration of its chemical weapons programme cannot be considered accurate due to gaps, inconsistencies and discrepancies, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs told…
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