Reports

Background In October 2019, military operations in the area around the Turkish border led to a change in control of an area of approximately 4,000 km, encompassing Ras al-Ain, Suluk and Tell Abiad sub-districts. As a result, approximately 70,000…

Background In October 2019, military operations in the area around the Turkish border led to a change in control of an area of approximately 4,000 km, encompassing Ras al-Ain, Suluk and Tell Abiad sub-districts. As a result, approximately 70,000…

Background In October 2019, military operations in the area around the Turkish border led to a change in control of an area of approximately 4,000 km, encompassing Ras al-Ain, Suluk and Tell Abiad sub-districts. As a result, approximately 70,000…

As delivered Thank you, Madam President. I hope you can all hear me. I returned last week from a visit to Syria, Lebanon and Turkey, my first mission to the region in my new capacity. The visit offered an…

Amman, Jordan, September 15, 2021 — As a second COVID wave hits northwest Syria, supplies of testing kits and oxygen are beginning to run low just as daily case numbers reach record highs - and airstrikes…

Background and methodology The aim of the Emergency Needs Tracking (ENT) System is to track the key priority needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northwest Syria, as well as identifying communities with households in direct need…

Human Rights Council Forty-eighth session 13 September–1 October 2021 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Summary** In the present report, submitted to the Human Rights Council pursuant to its resolution 46/22, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry…

GENEVA, 14 September 2021 - The upsurge in fighting and the return to violence are cause for alarm, according to the 24th report of the UN Syria Commission of Inquiry released today, stressing that the country…

HIGHLIGHTS COVID-19 cases have increased across north-west Syria since mid-August, with more than 1,000 daily cases recorded in the past few weeks. Since June 2021, an escalation in hostilities resulted in 86 civilians killed and 205 civilians injured…

Summary Context At the start of 2021, more than two out of three Syrians living in northern and northeast Syria (NES) were estimated to be in humanitarian need, a significant increase compared to 2020. This amounts to 4.5…