Milan (AsiaNews) – It is essential for the UN to deploy a peacekeeping force with the ... Bloodshed in the “new” Syria The Syrian Ministry of Defence just announced the end of military ...

Syrian analysts feared there would be revenge attacks against the Alawite community – the second-largest religious group in Syria after Sunni Muslims. So far, the UN human rights office has ...

The US and Russia have jointly called for the United Nations Security Council to meet over the spiralling violence in Syria, after more than 1,000 people were massacred this week. Diplomats ...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, warned of escalating violence in Syria in a statement on Sunday, urging an immediate end to the killing of civilians in the coastal areas of ...

The U.N. special envoy for Syria is calling for an end to violence ... Margaret Besheer contributed to this report from the United Nations.

The UN human rights chief Volker Turk has urged immediate cessation of civilian killings in coastal areas in northwest Syria. "Following a series of coordinated attacks reportedly launched by ...

The United Nations on Sunday said reports of entire families being killed in northwestern Syria was “extremely disturbing” and it called for an immediate halt to the violence. UN rights chief ...

New York: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned all violence in Syria, calling for a halt to hostilities and the escalation by militants in the country's coastal region.

Armed groups killed entire families, including women and children, during an outbreak of sectarian violence in Syria last week, the United Nations’ human rights office said on Tuesday.