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Displaced from Idlib Province (Twitter)

September 12th, 2018 - 04:59 GMT

30,000 Civilians Displaced from Idlib Province - UN

At least 30,000 residents have already been displaced from northwestern Syria's Idlib province, the U.N. Secretary General's spokesman warned Monday.

84,000 civilians fled to Erbil, 78,372 to Sulaimani and 6,000 to Duhok and Zakho from Rabea and Zummar (AFP/File)

October 22nd, 2017 - 06:56 GMT

Kurds Face Humanitarian Crisis with 170,000 Displaced

Syrian authorities executed between 5,000 and 13,000 detainees in Saydnaya military prison during the first five years of the conflict, according to reports (AFP/File)

October 20th, 2017 - 05:00 GMT

Analysis: Politics is Burying Syria's Disappeared

ISIS released a video in 2015 allegedly depicting the beheading of 20 Egyptian Copts (AFP)

October 8th, 2017 - 12:33 GMT

Remains of 20 Egyptian Copts Beheaded by ISIS Found in Libya

A number of Israeli warplanes violated Lebanese airspace over the South on Wednesday evening (Shutterstock/File Photo)

September 21st, 2017 - 09:51 GMT

Israel Invades Lebanese Airspace, Says Government Agency

The panel approved by the U.N. General Assembly in December has been denounced by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government. (AFP)

May 2nd, 2017 - 07:00 GMT

UN to launch new Syria war crime panel

A Hezboallah fighter armed with an RPG stands near Lebanon's border with Israel, April 20 2017. (AFP/Joseph Eid)

April 25th, 2017 - 11:00 GMT

Hezbollah sanctions hurt the whole of Lebanon, warns President

Prisoners across Libya "were subjected to various forms of mistreatment, including severe beatings, electrocution, acts of sexual violence and rape, solitary confinement" as well as mock executions. (File/Photo)

April 25th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Former Gaddafi security chief, a wanted war criminal

Hezbollah supporters. (AFP)

April 3rd, 2017 - 08:00 GMT

Lebanon’s Prime Minister says that Israel - not Hezbollah - looking for war

The upcoming visit will also offer insights into the relationship between the Netanyahu government and the Jewish community in the United States. (AFP/File)

February 15th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Trump and Netanyahu meet to discuss what to do about Iran

Opposition fighters drive a tank in an eastern government sieged neighbourhood of Aleppo as jihadists and their rebel allies pressed an offensive on August 5, 2016. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)

September 11th, 2016 - 03:00 GMT

Syrian regime pounds Aleppo hours before Eid ceasefire

Experts say Iran's new Emad surface-to-surface missile is more reliable than its predecessors such as these Shahab-2 long-range ballistic missiles. (AFP/File)

March 15th, 2016 - 07:30 GMT

UN Security Council: Israel wants Iran punished for missile tests

Supporters of the Shia Houthi movement hold portraits senior Houthi leader Lutf al-Quhom, who was killed in recent fighting, during his funeral on Feb. 18, 2016 in the capital Sanaa. (AFP/Mohammed Huwais)

February 25th, 2016 - 07:00 GMT

Yemen: Lebanon’s Hezbollah supporting Houthi rebels in Yemen