Luxembourg and Belgium are seeking a more impactful and “useful” recognition of Palestinian statehood, its foreign ministers said Monday.  “What changed since the recognition of Palestine as a state by three European countries?” Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel told...

International donors meeting in Brussels said Monday they will commit 7.5 billion euros ($8.1 billion) in both grants and loans to support Syrians battered by war, poverty, and hunger for the rest of this year and beyond. The pledges surpassed the modest $4.07 billion that the United...

Opponents of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad seeking refuge in Idlib are now protesting against local Islamist hardliners Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. The group is accused of becoming increasingly dictatorial. People in the Idlib region of  northwestern Syria are taking to the streets again...

More than a quarter of Syrians live in extreme poverty, the  World Bank  has said, 13 years into a devastating civil war that has battered the economy and impoverished millions. The World Bank published two new reports on  Syria , which found that "27 percent of...