A UN mandate for aid transfer to Syria via the Bab Al-Hawa crossing on the border with Türkiye is about to expire soon and the failure of extension raises fears of imminent humanitarian disaster. The long-running aid operation that allows the use of the Bab al-Hawa crossing on the...

Japan's permanent representative to the UN, Ishikane Kimihiro, said Tuesday the renewal of a resolution allowing cross-border aid in north-west Syria "is a matter of life or death for so many people." Kimihiro said there are "intense" discussions underway and that he is "hoping" and...

This year will, God permitting, be the year the Syrian civil war comes to an end. It has been 4,311 days, or 11 years, nine months and 18 days, since March 15, 2011, when the unrest in Syria and several other countries began as part of the Arab Spring protests. Governments had been toppled,...

The first high-level meeting between Turkish and Syrian officials in Moscow last week was cordial but no deals have been made, multiple sources told Middle East Eye.  The Turkish and Syrian defence ministers, along with their Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu, met on Thursday, elevating...