19 February 2014 – The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees expressed his “outrage and shock” today,…
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15 February 2014 – Calling an end to the latest round of United Nations-backed talks in Geneva on Syria’s civil…
15 February 2014 – Warning that food and basic supplies are running dangerously low for thousands of Palestinians languishing in…
15 February 2014 – The United Nations Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed Saturday’s announcement of the formation of…
13 February 2014 – The United Nations/Arab Joint Special Representative for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, said officials from Russia and the…
12 February 2014 – More relief moved in today for Syrians trapped in the Old City of Homs for nearly…
12 February 2014 – More than 20 vital United Nations construction projects for schools and housing in Gaza are stalled,…
11 February 2014 – United Nations-sponsored talks between the Syrian Government and opposition that resumed yesterday are making scant progress…
11 February 2014 – The United Nations said today that it is receiving more reports of civilian casualties and further…
11 February 2014 – A senior United Nations official today appealed to all parties in the Syrian conflict to ensure…
10 February 2014 – A third shipment of chemical weapons material was removed from Syria today, the Joint Mission of…
10 February 2014 – United Nations-sponsored talks between the Syrian Government and opposition resumed today, 10 days after a first…
9 February 2014 – A top United Nations official said she is deeply disappointed that a three-day humanitarian pause agreed…
7 February 2014 – As the first of 2,500 Syrians trapped by war in the Old City of Homs without…
6 February 2014 – The United Nations today welcomed a long-sought accord to let in convoys with life-saving supplies for…
6 February 2014 – Government and opposition forces in Syria are committing war crimes by using civilian suffering, such as…
5 February 2014 – The number of people displaced by the civil war inside Syria is expected to nearly double…
5 February 2014 – The Syrian Government moved the majority of content from its 34 national museums into safe havens,…
5 February 2014 – The United Nations envoy to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, strongly condemned the attack on the country’s foreign…
4 February 2014 – Syrian children have been subjected to “unspeakable” suffering in the nearly three years of civil war,…