Stephanie Nebehay
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 - 12:55
Opposition leader Ahmed Jarba accused the president of Nazi-style war crimes and demanded the Syrian government delegation at the one-day meeting in Switzerland immediately sign up to an international plan for handing over power.
Monday, December 16, 2013 - 08:14
The United Nations appealed for $6.5 billion for Syria and its neighbors on Monday to help 16 million people next year, many of them hungry or homeless victims of a 33-month-old conflict that has no end in sight.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 - 09:06
The United Nations' first relief airlift to Syria from Iraq will deliver food and winter supplies to the mostly Kurdish northeast this week with the permission of both governments, the UNHCR refugee agency said on Tuesday.
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 08:22
The deal calls for the warring sides to set up a transitional governing body with full executive powers, including over military and security entities, but leaves open the fate of Assad.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 09:40
The United States and Russia failed on Tuesday to agree on a date for a Syrian peace conference, remaining divided over what role Iran might play in talks to end the civil war and over who would represent Syria's opposition.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 00:00
Colombian military and police forces suspected of committing crimes including murder and torture in the country's long war could escape prosecution under proposed constitutional reforms, U.N. human rights experts warned.
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 00:00
"There have been very many young people, teenagers, who have been killed at the border," Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told a news conference.
Friday, October 28, 2011 - 00:00
Keith Krause, an arms expert and one of the authors of the Geneva Declaration report, said it was not clear how many of the weapons used by Mexican drug gangs came from the United States
Friday, September 4, 2009 - 00:00
"Those who fought five or 10 years ago and have been demobilised can help with reconstruction. It sends a good signal," vice president Francisco Santos told a news conference in Geneva