The push to immunize all children against polio has been hampered by the ongoing crisis in the Syrian Arab Republic. WHO and UNICEF have appealed to all parties to cooperate, including through temporary pauses in hostilities where needed, to allow vaccination campaigns to take place...

Assad government has planned to provide a petition to the international community saying; ‘’Yes for New Presidential Period for Bashar al-Assad in 2014,’’ sources revealed. Syrian employees have no escape from signing the petition under threat of termination, activists...

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon has said he will discuss the details of the Geneva II Conference with U.N. and Arab League envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi in Paris on Sunday. "We will work on establishing a transitional government with executive powers (just) like what the Geneva I...

    When the peaceful uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turned bloody more than two and a half years ago, Egypt was a welcome safe haven for fleeing Syrian refugees. The welcome was short lived however when the host nation descended into turmoil of...