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UN demands humanitarian access to eastern Syria

The United Nations on Friday called for "unhindered humanitarian access" to people fleeing the last pocket of Islamic State jihadists in eastern Syria. In the past week alone, the UN says more than 10,000 people have fled from the conflict zone to Al-Hol, where the main camp for people...

Syrians in Hajin desperate to go home

: In the former militant bastion of Hajin in eastern Syria, 50-year-old Khaled Abed shouts at the top of his lungs amid the rubble, asking why he can’t go home. The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces expelled Daesh (ISIS) from the town last month, but it has since forbidden anyone from...

Cold kills 29 children fleeing Syria fighting: WHO

At least 29 Syrian children have died in the cold weather in the past eight weeks as they tried to flee the violence in eastern Syria, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. The children and newborns mostly died of hypothermia while traveling to the Al-Hol refugee camp in...