brussels bureau EU should use fundraising conference to shape Syria crisis, says MEP German MEP Hannah Neumann said Brussels should use the promise of humanitarian aid and reconstruction funds as a bargaining chip to shape the situation in Syria. 30/06/2020
World EU records first rise in asylum applications since 2015 migrant crisis EU countries recorded more than 738,000 asylum applications in 2019, an 11 per cent increase from the previous year and the first rise since the height of the migrant crisis. 26/06/2020
France France repatriates ten children of French jihadists from Syria There might be around 300 children of French jihadists still in refugee camps in north-eastern Syria. 22/06/2020
no comment Displaced Syrians break Ramadan fast amid rubble of former home Tareq Abu Ziad and his family break the daily fast for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan while sitting in the rubble of their destroyed home in the town of Ariha in the southern countryside of Syria's Idlib. 05/05/2020
Morocco Many Muslims around the world begin Ramadan under lockdown In many countries Muslims are under lockdown and many communal rituals that are so integral to the holy month of fasting can't be performed. 25/04/2020
Germany Syria refugees to face their torturers in German court Wassim Mukdad, 34, will testify before a German court in the trial of Anwar R., a former member of Syria's secret police suspected of overseeing the abuse of detainees at a notorious jail near Damascus known as Al Khatib, or Branch 251. 21/04/2020
View COVID-19 doesn’t discriminate against refugees with disabilities. Neither should our response ǀ View Security Council members vowed to do their best to make sure that the needs of people with disabilities were part in the humanitarian response in Syria and beyond. Now that the world is trying to defeat COVID-19, here’s your chance to make good on that promise. 10/04/2020
World Five stories you may have missed this week because of COVID-19 The news may be saturated by COVID-19 and new areas of society it is affecting, but other news is still out there. 20/03/2020
Syria Syria enters its tenth year of war Even before the coronavirus outbreak, that war had largely fallen off of the world's collective radars. 15/03/2020
View On International Women’s Day, we cannot ignore the plight of Idlib’s women and children ǀ View There are few issues more critical to the plight of the world’s women and girls today than the humanitarian crisis in Idlib, Syria. Of the estimated 1 million internally displaced people in the northern Syrian province, an estimated 80% are women and children. 06/03/2020
Syria Russia's Putin and Turkey's Erdogan agree Syria ceasefire Putin said that Russia and Turkey had agreed to a ceasefire in Syria after violence escalated this past week. 05/03/2020
no comment Smoke billows after air strikes hit Syrian towns of Al-Bara and Baylun Smoke was seen in the skies near Idlib, Syria on Tuesday air strikes on the towns of Al-Bara, to the south of the city, and Balyun. 03/03/2020
Syria Turkey shoots down two Syrian government warplanes Two of Syrian warplanes were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, the country's official news agency SANA reported on Sunday. Earlier that day, pro-government Syrian forces downed a Turkish drone. 01/03/2020
World Coronavirus, crashes and conflict: February's most powerful pictures Here is our selection of the best photographs from February. 28/02/2020
World In pictures: the best images from this week's biggest stories This week in pictures: COVID-19 spreads in Europe, Syrians flee violence and Greek protests 28/02/2020
The Cube Turkey blocks Twitter, Facebook after deadly airstrike Turkey blocked access to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram after an airstrike killed at least 33 of its troops in Idlib, according to internet monitoring groups. 28/02/2020
Syria Refugees reach Greek border as EU demands Turkey uphold commitments Turkey has suggested it will stop preventing migrants from crossing through en route to Europe, which would be in breach of a pact made with the bloc in 2106. 27/02/2020
Syria Syrian humanitarian worker speaks out about Idlib humanitarian crisis "Idlib is about to be the most catastrophic humanitarian situation in history," a Syrian White Helmets volunteer told Euronews. 26/02/2020
Syria These pictures reveal how desperate life is in northwest Syria More than 900,000 people have been displaced by violence in northwest Syria in fewer than three months. 25/02/2020
Finland Finland says to take in 175 Mediterranean asylum-seekers The Finnish government says it has agreed to take in 175 asylum-seekers from camps in Cyprus, Greece, Italy and Malta "to alleviate the humanitarian situation" experienced by refugees in the Mediterranean members of the European Union. 22/02/2020
France ‘My heart says he's not dead’: Mother of ISIS recruit holding out hope The mother of an ISIS recruit has told Euronews she believes her son is still alive - three years since reports he was killed in Syria. 14/02/2020
no comment Nearly 300,000 displaced from Idlib by Syrian government bombardment Weeks of intensive aerial bombardment has sent huge numbers fleeing northwards closer to the Turkish border. 04/02/2020
Syria Turkey says Syria talks with Moscow continue despite clash Turkey's foreign minister says Ankara and Moscow are working to keep peace efforts for Syria alive despite a deadly clash between Turkish and Syrian forces 03/02/2020
no comment Syrians flee towards Turkish border as government forces advance Displaced Syrians flee towards the border with Turkey after an offensive by Syrian government forces in the rebel-held northwestern region, Idlib. 28/01/2020
no comment Hundreds of Syrian civilians flee fighting south of Idlib province Hundreds of families fled their homes in northwestern Syria amid intense bombardment by Syrian government and Russian forces. 27/01/2020
Turkey Hundreds of Syrians in Turkey protest outside Russian consulate Hundreds of Syrians in Turkey gathered outside the Russian consulate in Istanbul on Saturday to protest about Russian backed Syrian government offensive in the Idlib province. The bombardments have caused 230,000 people to be displaced in just two weeks. 29/12/2019
