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The UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, is due to hold talks in Turkey, amid rising tensions between Ankara and Damascus. Mr Brahimi will hear Turkey's perspective on the ...

Following the five-day long shelling from the Syrian side, UN chief Ban warns that the rising violence along the Turkish-Syrian border and the effect of the Syrian conflict on Lebanon ...

Security council overcomes divisions to condemn attack which killed five people in border town. The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a statement condemning "in the strongest terms" Syria's shelling of ...

The UN Security Council has condemned a Syrian mortar attack on a Turkish border town that killed five civilians. The statement said the attack underscored the grave impact the Syrian ...

Turkish Cypriot President Dervis Eroglu met with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meetings. Turkish Cypriot President Dervis Eroglu on Saturday ...

The Turkish foreign minister blasted the United Nations Security Council on Friday for its stalemate over the Syrian civil war, saying the powerful UN body's inability to take action "becomes ...

Up to 700,000 Syrian refugees may flee abroad by the end of the year, the UN refugee agency says, almost four times its previous forecast for the exodus from the ...

President Barack Obama is challenging the international community to confront the root causes of turmoil in the Middle East, saying the world faces "a choice between the forces that would ...

War in Syria, mounting tensions over Iran’s nuclear drive and anti-Western protests across the Muslim world will cast a shadow over the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders starting today. ...

The new international envoy working to end Syria's civil war told members of the U.N. Security Council on Monday that President Bashar Assad will not institute reforms which would end ...