Syria

UN says COVID pandemic increasing vulnerability of children in conflict zones to grave violations.

On World Refugee Day, Al Jazeera looks at the painful journeys refugees were forced on in 2020 despite global pandemic.

Refugee numbers worldwide increase for a ninth year in a row as people continue to be displaced amid the COVID crisis.

NGOs fear medical shortages and hunger for millions in Idlib, if UN does not re-authorise Bab al-Hawa border crossing.

The shelling, in an area controlled by Turkey-backed fighters, killed at least 13 people and injured 27.

Rihab Kassem, a Palestinian-Syrian refugee, is among hundreds who have been urged to leave the Scandinavian country.

State news agency reports ‘explosions in Damacus’; war monitor says at least eight pro-government fighters killed.

Al-Hussein, who lost a leg in a bomb blast in Syria, aims to compete at his second Paralympic Games.

After years of conflict, Riyadh now views Damascus as an expedient avenue to shore up broader regional interests.

Kurdish-led administration in Syria’s northeast handed over the group to a delegation from the Netherlands on Saturday.

Russia slams the global chemical weapons watchdog for collecting evidence remotely and relying on ‘pseudo witnesses’.

After being told to return to Damascus, Syrians, some of whom arrived as children, stage a sit-in outside parliament.

Qatar’s chief diplomat expresses optimism about overcoming differences with the UAE after the Gulf rift.

Western powers dismissed the poll as ‘neither free nor fair’, while Syria’s opposition called it a ‘farce’.