Islamic State extremists are exploiting instability in Africa and Syria and remain a significant threat in Afghanistan, ...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Syria faces a potential food crisis after the worst drought in 36 years slashed wheat production by around ...

A United Nations commission investigating deadly March violence in Syria’s Alawite-majority coastal areas said the attacks, ...

Topics included: compliance with the 1974 cease-fire agreement, violence in southern Syria, smuggling and refugees In a move described as surprising and unprecedented in recent years, Damascus ...

U.S. funding for the body provides leverage for reform but no less important will be sustained pressure from the leaders of ...

UNITED NATIONS — The top U.N. official for Syria warned Wednesday of the “real dangers of renewed conflict and deeper confrontation” in the war-battered country but also hoped for a better ...

UNITED NATIONS -- Syria's foreign minister attended a U.N. Security Council briefing Friday after raising his country's new flag at the international body's headquarters. It was the first public ...

UNITED NATIONS- Syria became a full member of the global anti-chemical weapons treaty on Thursday, the country’s U.N. envoy said, a move that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

A humanitarian aid worker from Surrey who has been working in Syria for four and a half years says the situation in the country is "hopeful". Lucia Gobbi, 34, from Walton-on-Thames, works with the ...

UNITED NATIONS -- Syria's foreign minister attended a U.N. Security Council briefing Friday after raising his country's new flag at the international body's headquarters. It was the first public ...

Communities in Syria have been fighting but whom Syrians hold responsible for the violence often depends on politics or ...