The UN refugee agency says 200,000 Syrians have already returned home since the fall of Bashar Assad. But Western sanctions ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, accompanied by Rwandan forces, advanced on Goma, a regional hub for security and humanitarian ...

The United Nations human rights chief has called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong ...

With Saddam Hussein's government gone, the United States wants the sanctions lifted immediately. It argues the funds should be used for reconstruction and basic needs, without UN control.

Iran must make a first step towards improving relations with countries in the region and the United States by making it clear ...

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk Wednesday urged an easing of economic sanctions on Syria after Bashar al-Assad's fall, during the first-ever visit by someone in his post to the country.

The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the ...

Some of the Barbados ships have already been re-registered with other nations including Tanzania and São Tomé and Príncipe.

UN Syria envoy Geir Pedersen was in Damascus for the second time since Assad's ouster for talks with the country's de facto ...

The shift is based on an assessment done by the UN in January, weeks after Assad was ousted by Islamist rebels, bringing an abrupt end to a 13-year civil war that had created one of the biggest refuge ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — The United Nations human rights chief on Wednesday called for the lifting of Western sanctions imposed on Syria over its yearslong civil war, now that former leader Bashar ...