Category: 3. Middle East

GENEVA, Dec 8 (Reuters) – More than 3 million Syrians have returned home since the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s rule a year ago but a decline in global funding could deter others, the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday.

Some 1.2 million refugees…

Freed hostage Rom Braslavski was in Italy on Sunday, at the invitation of the country’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, addressing the annual “Atreju” conference of the Italian premier’s party, the right-wing Fratelli D’Italia, in…

DAMASCUS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – A year after dictator Bashar al-Assad’s ouster in Syria, little has changed in Amina Beqai’s desperate quest. She types her missing husband’s name yet again into an internet search box, hoping for answers to a…

GENEVA, Dec 8 (Reuters) – The United Nations on Monday appealed for an aid budget only half the size of what it had hoped for this year, acknowledging a plunge in donor funding at a time when humanitarian needs have never been greater.

By its own…

Border Police forces and personnel from the Civil Administration department of the Defense Ministry on Sunday removed settler activists from illegal outposts and encampments they had established in closed military zones in the West…

DAMASCUS, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Syrians will mark the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and his iron-fisted rule on Monday, as the fractured nation struggles to find stability and recover after years of war.

Official celebrations…