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UN envoy urges progress in Syrian political process

A UN envoy Sunday pushed for progress on the eve of the latest round of talks in Geneva towards revising Syria's constitution and winding down the country's nine-year-old civil war. "We want to see progress," Geir Pedersen, the UN special envoy for Syria, told reporters during a virtual...

UK aid budget cuts will add to Syrian misery

After almost ten years of a brutal civil war, economic catastrophe, rising poverty, the COVID-19 pandemic and now the fatal winter months – misery is compounded again and again in Syria, and the UK's decision to cut its aid budget will only add to the suffering of Syrians. According...