The World Food Programme is ramping up its Syria operations in anticipation of greater demand from inside and outside the country, but lack of access is proving problematic, the U.N. group’s executive director told reporters Tuesday. “Most of my...
The Syrian chemical weapons stockpile includes more than 1000 tons of agents and precursor chemicals, making it one of the largest in the world, a declassified French intelligence report says. The report notes that the Syrian chemical weapons program poses a major global threat in terms of...
In the Syrian conflict, the Russian government has firmly sided with the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Russian author and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek offers a different view. There is no consensus toward the Syrian crisis in Russia. It varies from...
The remnants of Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel drenched northeastern and southwestern Mexico with torrential rains Monday, flooding towns and cities, cutting highways and setting off landslides in a national emergency that federal authorities said had caused at least 34 deaths....
