The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Germany, Austria and several other European countries have said they will freeze all pending asylum requests from Syrians, a day after the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad. Approaching the question with caution, France's interior ministry said it was "considering" a similar move.

UN agency and charities call on governments not to leave refugees in limbo after UK and Germany suspend claims

President Bashar al-Assad fled to Moscow on Sunday with his family

Turkey accuses Israel of displaying occupier mentality and UN envoy says airstrikes must cease

Israel plans to create ‘sterile defensive zone’ inside southern border, and Turkey bombs Kurdish targets in north Syria

Israel's bombing of Syrian military assets and its entry into the UN-patrolled buffer zone on the Golan Heights show it fears the worst from the end of the Assad clan's rule, analysts told AFP. "The Israeli government... is operating on a worst-case scenario with little to no nuance," said Yossi…

After the fall of the Assad regime, the Israeli military has taken control of a UN-controlled buffer zone in the Golan Heights and hit targets across the country

Israeli warplanes have pounded military sites in Syria after Israeli troops seized a border buffer zone following the collapse of President Bashar Assad’s rule

Letter: Current and former contributors to the international pages of the Guardian and Observer respond to an article by Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of the Scott Trust

Post-Assad leadership must prove its social and political inclusivity to shed terror designation, says UN envoy

State Human Rights Commissions in at least 16 of India’s 28 states do not meet requirements mandated under the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.