Syria is a “hemorrhaging country,” says Panos Moumtzis, the UNHCR’s regional refugee coordinator for the Syria crisis. He spoke with Syria Deeply founder Lara Setrakian in a Google Hangout this week, shortly after Syria’s official refugee toll hit the 1 million mark.
After numerous failed attempts at peace negotiations, the signs of an agreement between the two sides looks promising with the Turkish government ready to empower the BDP as the outlet for the demobilisation and politicisation of the PKK cadres.
A year after Marie Colvin was killed in Homs, the war in Syria is still raging and has cost the lives of more than 60,000 people. Following new US Secretary of State John Kerry’s first foreign tour, a discussion at the Frontline Club asked if he can deliver on his vow not to leave the Syrian opposition “dangling in the wind”.
Since the bloody conflict in Mali began one year ago, the crisis has evolved in fits and starts, all the while immersed in…
In an effort to help save lives in Syria, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said that the UK will supply the rebels with armoured vehicles and body armour in their struggle to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.