Geneva: The number of Syrian refugees, who are either registered or awaiting registration, has surpassed 1.5 million, while the actual number is much higher, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
The increasingly widening gap between needs and available resources is a growing challenge, reported Xinhua citing UNHCR's spokesperson Dan McNorton on Friday .
"Over the past four months, we have seen a rapid deterioration compared to the previous 20 months of this conflict," he said.
The UNHCR had continued to respond to the emergency needs of those in need inside Syria and in neighbouring countries....
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10:59 AM, May 18, 2013
United Nations: The UN General Assembly condemned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces and praised the opposition on Wednesday, but a decline in support for the resolution suggested growing unease about extremism among Syria's fractious rebels. While the non-binding text has no legal force, resolutions of the 193-nation assembly can carry significant moral and political weight. There were 107 votes in favor, 12 against and 59 abstentions - a drop in...
03:26 AM, May 16, 2013
Damascus: Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi escaped an assassination bid when a bomb exploded near his convoy in Damascus. The attack killed at least five people and left several others injured including the country's interior minister. The Prime Minister was not hurt. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the suicide attack. The UN has condemned the attack and the civil war, which has claimed more than 70 thousand...
07:33 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Rome: At least 50 Syrian soldiers have deserted the army and joined rebel forces, Syrian activists said. A colonel was among the deserters who joined the rebels near the city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, amid raging battles in the area, Syria's Local Coordinating Committees opposition group said on its Facebook page. Fighters from the jihadist Al-Nusra Front - branded a terror group by the US State Department - are...
09:27 AM, Apr 13, 2013
United Nations: The United Nations and Syria have not yet agreed on how much access a team of chemical weapons inspectors will have to investigate allegations that such arms were used recently in the Syrian conflict, according to a letter to Syria's UN envoy. The United Nations said in March it would investigate the Syrian government's allegations that rebels used chemical arms in an attack near the northern city of...
04:15 AM, Apr 05, 2013
A Syrian Army rocket attack on a rebel-held district in the city of Aleppo killed at least 20 people and another 25 were missing, opposition activists said on Tuesday. ...
06:51 AM, Feb 26, 2013
A missile struck the command centre of the main Syrian rebel force near Damascus on Wednesday, wounding its leader, activists said, and a soccer player was killed when a mortar bomb hit a stadium in the centre of the capital. ...
03:57 AM, Feb 21, 2013
Syrian rebels battled President Bashar al Assad's forces on the edge of central Damascus on Wednesday, opposition activists said, seeking to break his grip over districts leading to the heart of the capital. ...
03:26 AM, Feb 07, 2013
Syria protested to the United Nations on Thursday over an Israeli air strike on its territory and warned of a possible "surprise" response. ...
02:42 AM, Feb 01, 2013
Russia said the chances of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad staying in power were growing "smaller and smaller", as fighting on Sunday in southwestern Damascus shut a main highway from the capital. ...
03:57 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Assad's most powerful foreign backer Russia said the war would not be resolved peacefully as long as rebels insist on his overthrow. ...
01:05 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Syria said on Friday a car bomb at a crowded petrol station in Damascus was set off by "terrorists", a term it uses for rebels seeking to topple President Bashar al Assad. ...
06:24 AM, Jan 05, 2013
The international envoy seeking a negotiated solution to Syria's 21-month-old conflict said on Thursday political change was needed to end the violence which has killed 44,000 people. ...
02:26 AM, Dec 28, 2012
NATO told Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Tuesday that any use of chemical weapons in his fight against encroaching rebel forces would be met by an immediate international response. ...
03:07 AM, Dec 05, 2012
Two car bombs killed at least 34 people in a district of Damascus loyal to President Bashar al Assad on Wednesday in the deadliest attack on the Syrian capital in months. ...
05:27 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Beirut: Bombs planted by rebels exploded at a school building occupied by pro-government militias in Damascus on Tuesday and world leaders discussed Syria's deepening crisis at a UN General Assembly meeting, but without proposals to resolve it. Vastly outgunned, rebels fighting to topple President Bashar al-Assad have increasingly relied on home-made bombs to target their opponents, striving to level the playing field against state forces using fighter jets, artillery and...
03:04 AM, Sep 26, 2012
Beirut: Amateur video posted on YouTube on Monday showed images of 20 dead Syrian soldiers, blindfolded and handcuffed, after they were apparently executed in the northern city of Aleppo. Two videos showed the dead men dressed in Army fatigues and kneeling in a long line along a road with their bloodied heads lying on the pavement. It was not possible to verify the authenticity of the videos. Rami Abdulrahman, head...
09:41 AM, Sep 11, 2012
August has been termed as the bloodiest month of the uprising in Syria, with almost 440 people killed over the last weekend alone. ...
10:05 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Beirut/United Nations: The United Nations on Friday confirmed that veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi would become the new international mediator on Syria, as the 17-month-old conflict slid deeper into civil war and refugees fled to Turkey in increasing numbers. President Bashar al-Assad's forces have turned increasingly to air power to hold back lightly armed rebels in the capital Damascus and Aleppo, a northern commercial hub. More than 18,000 people have...
03:23 AM, Aug 18, 2012
Azaz: A Syrian air raid killed 30 people in the rebel-held northern border town of Azaz on Wednesday, a local doctor said, and a bomb went off near UN and military sites in the capital Damascus, wounding three. The doctor, Mohammad Lakhini, said at a hospital in Azaz that scores of people were wounded in the air strike. It reduced several houses in the town to rubble and dozens of...
01:59 AM, Aug 16, 2012
