The Latest Breaking News from Syria

NPR speaks to the family of a Syrian refugee who died along with possibly hundreds of other people in a shipwreck off the Greek coast in June.

Syria, Russia, Belarus, China, North Korea, Cuba and Iran were among those voting against UN resolution.

Syria has pledged to fight drug smuggling in talks with Arab neighbours, but the stimulant keeps moving across region.

Intense air strikes by Russia, an ally of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, have targeted the rebel-held Idlib region in northwestern Syria since June 20. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), air strikes on June 25 killed at least 13 people, including children, and one attack hit a…

Parched communities, once displaced by the ravages of ISIL, can barely survive the decimation of their water supplies.

A U.N. report says armed groups across Syria are recruiting children into their ranks in growing numbers, even as fighting is subsiding

Countries that once welcomed Syrians fleeing the civil war are now forcing them to return as Assad is feted by the Arab world

Over the past 20 years, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes worldwide due to conflict has reached a figure in excess of 90 million. This has more than doubled since the early 1990s, a time period labelled “the decade of displacement” by the United Nations Refugee Agency.…

The UN General Assembly is to vote this week on setting up an independent institution on missing persons in Syria.