Syria has become a "haven" for mercenaries, drug traffickers and terrorism, the UN’s special envoy for the country said Monday.  In his briefing to UN Security Council members, Geir Pedersen said the Syrian people have continued to suffer from violence and human rights abuses this...

A Syrian refugee who fled to safety in Wales has told how he feared for his life after paying people smugglers to help him slip through the Turkish border and into the UK on a fake passport. Ammar Alhalaki was 26 and had just finished an engineering degree in Damascus when the government...

Six people, including four women, were killed in Syria’s Al-Hol camp for displaced people by Daesh in December, a Britain-based war monitor group said on Sunday. The camp, which is controlled by the Kurdish-led autonomous administration in northeastern Syria, houses about 62,000 displaced...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday the international community has not done enough to support Lebanon which is grappling with a dire economic crisis and is home to over 1 million Syrian refugees. The UN leader urged more support at the start of a three-day visit...