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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — With no progress toward ending the 10-year Syrian conflict, the U.N. special envoy for Syria called Friday for new international talks on concrete steps like exchanging prisoners and a nationwide cease-fire that the government and opposition could agree on as initial steps to give impetus to a political solution.

AFRIN, Syria (AP) — The death toll from an artillery strike on a hospital in northern Syria has risen to at least 15, medical officials said Sunday. The shelling, a day earlier, caused widespread destruction and knocked out the hospital’s maternity ward and surgery unit. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack […]

Opinion: The dilemma with Assad in Syria Syria has been through ten years of war, destruction, and death. Yet Bashar Assad is still having himself elected president. Its time for a strategy change in dealing with this country in need, writes Matthias von Hein. The outcome of the Syrian elections has been clear from the start It doesnt take a crystal ball to predict the outcome of the Syrian "presidential election": When all the votes are counted, the winner wont be Abdullah Salloum Abdullah or ...

Ghaith Alsayed A Syrian nurse receives AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, at Ibn Sina Hospital, in Idlib town, northwestern Syria, Saturday, May 1, 2021. The inoculation campaign against COVID-19 kicked off in Syrias last rebel-held enclave in the countrys northwest. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) May 01, 2021 - 9:52 PM IDLIB, Syria - A COVID-19 vaccine campaign kicked off in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave on Saturday, with a 45-year-old front-line nurse becoming the fir...

Vaccine campaign begins amid virus surge in rebel-held Syria | 2021/05/01

2021/04/22 17:54 A health worker checks boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines inside a truck, that were delivered to Idlib through a border crossing with Turkey, in B... A health worker checks boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines inside a truck, that were delivered to Idlib through a border crossing with Turkey, in Bab Al-Hawa, northwestern Syria, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Syrias last rebel-held enclave received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday,...

To no surprise, Bashar Assad runs for reelection in Syria Syrias upcoming election has been criticized as a "theatrical farce." Though there are five candidates in addition to the incumbent, international governments and the UN see no sign of a free and fair election. 55-year-old Bashar al-Assad announced on Wednesday that he will run for another term As of Wednesday, three days have passed since Hammouda Sabbagh, the speaker of Syrias parliament, announced the date of the presidential electi...

Denmark tells Syrian refugees to return to Damascus Zero asylum seekers — that is essentially the Danish governments ultimate goal. Now, it is ordering Syrian refugees to return to Damascus, which Copenhagen says is safe. The Danish government wants to send refugee Aya Abo Daher, seen here with her high school principal, back to Syria Aya Abo Daher had just graduated high school in the Danish town of Nyborg and was looking forward to celebrating the event with her friends at the end of Ju...

Syrian photographers document a decade of war The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has compiled moving documents of contemporary history with a collection of images by Syrian photographers who have recorded daily life in the ongoing war. Searching for memories in the rubble of Raqqa A woman pushes a stroller through the destroyed landscape of Raqqa in this photograph from 2019. "I was shocked by what happened to my city, in which I have memories in every street," the photo...

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs has compiled moving documents of contemporary history with a collection of images by Syrian photographers who have recorded daily life in the