Headlines
  • At least five ballistic missile launches from Iran have been detected by the Israelis since midnight.
  • Mehrabad Airport in Tehran is hit by strikes
  • The Prince Sultan Air Base was the target of a ballistic missile that Saudi Arabia's military intercepted and destroyed, according to the country's defense ministry.
  • Heavy gunfire on Friday injured three peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon inside their base in southwest Lebanon.
  • To put an end to the bloodshed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged serious diplomatic negotiations..
  • In a social media post, President Trump said that "no deal" other than "unconditional surrender" will be with Iran.
  • Iran reportedly receives intelligence from Russia on US targets.

Tag: Syrian Civil War

December 20, 2018

Meet the Press

Staffan de Mistura (centre), United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, briefs press after consultations on Syria in Geneva

Syrian Refugees: The Looming Winter Months...

Suffering from spinal and back problems, Hilal’s only lifeline is the cash assistance he receives from UNHCR. The money helps him buy heating and winter clothes for his children

December 8, 2018

Hundreds of Bodies Exhumed From Raqqa...

Syrian workers in Raqqa have unearthed a mass grave containing hundreds of bodies of civilians and Islamic State fighters

November 29, 2018

If rockets fired into the Syrian...

A fragile ceasefire between Government forces and opposition fighters has held in Idlib for 10 weeks, guaranteed by Russia, Turkey and Iran, who re-committed to the deal at talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, on Thursday

November 22, 2018

Art in a Suitcase Depicts Wartorn...

Mohamad Hafez, an architect who designs skyscrapers, is better known as the artist who builds replicas of war torn homes

November 18, 2018

A Women-Only Village in Northern Syria...

A new village has been built specifically for women in northern Syria’s Rojava region. The name of the village is Jinwar, which means a place for women in Kurdish. It has 30 identical houses, each of which is made from red clay. VOA’s Zana Omer visited the village and filed this report, narrated by Bezhan …

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