'Cat man' won't leave Syria's pets
The cat man of Aleppo aka Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel has rescued more than 100 stray and abandoned cats in warstricken Syria. Many of
The cat man of Aleppo aka Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel has rescued more than 100 stray and abandoned cats in warstricken Syria. Many of
The two largest hospitals in the Syrian city of Aleppo have been bombed, knocking them out of service and worsening an already dire medical crisis.
As Syrian regime troops begin a massive Aleppo ground offensive, doctors are having to operate on kids without anaesthetic after being overwhelmed by patients.
Dozens of civilians were killed in Aleppo as Russian and Syrian regime bombers pounded city with a wave of air strikes on unprecedented scale.
A humanitarian catastrophe is looming in Aleppo after two days of Russian and Syrian government airstrikes left two million people without running water.
On a clear afternoon last Monday a line of humanitarian aid trucks eased to a stop in front of a cluster of warehouses packed with aid supplies 24km outside the Syrian city of Aleppo.
A 6-year-old boy's letter to Barack Obama asking him to send a Syrian refugee child to come and live with his family has gone viral.
Syria's UN ambassador, Bashar Ja'afari, slammed the United States at the special Security Council meeting.
Many New Zealanders might wonder why we bother with the UN, until they hear Key lament the council's performance on Syria in his speech.
The bar of depravity is sinking lower, says Ban Ki Moon in blistering attack on Syrian Government.
John Key's session chairing UN Security Council on Syria crisis has a heightened significance after the bombing of a UN convoy delivering aid near Aleppo.
COMMENT: John Key is set to land in the centre of a diplomatic crisis between the US and Russia during leaders' week at the UN over the truce in Syria.
The Russian President will cheer the Syrian agreement as a victory over US Secretary of State John Kerry.
The father of the young Syrian boy pictured washed up on a Turkish beach has accused the world of turning its back on Syria as people continue to die.
Before he drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, all 3-year-old Alan Kurdi knew was war. But for a moment his tragic death seemed not to be pointless. Warning - graphic.
Clashes between Syrian rebels and Kurdish-aligned forces, both backed by the United States, have intensified in northern Syria.
Turkish tanks and attack aircraft have clashed with Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria, just hours after hopes were raised about a new general ceasefire.
An Islamic State insider has revealed the never-before-told story of the shadowy meeting that spawned the bloodthirsty terror group.
At least two people have been killed and several, including babies, were injured in an air strike on a maternity hospital in Syria's Idlib province.
An offer of amnesty by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been met with scepticism by rebel fighters and residents.
US-backed Syrian fighters have found evidence that the Islamic State has rewritten school textbooks to promote its violent ideology.
In NZ Herald Focus this morning - a boy has been pulled from the rubble of a building destroyed in Aleppo.
Isis fighters shot down a Russian helicopter above Syria, killing both pilots on board.
Relatives of Marie Colvin, a Sunday Times journalist, have filed a lawsuit claiming that Syrian government officials killed her.
It might be embroiled in a bloody civil war, but Syria has big plans to woo tourists back.
Isis (Islamic State) insurgents faced major assaults on two fronts in both Iraq and Syria yesterday.
She's young, beautiful and studying politics and philosophy. But this young Danish woman isn't your average uni student.
Syria has used sarin nerve gas for the first time since 2013, dropping bombs laden with the chemical agent on Isis fighters outside Damascus.
Nearly 15 years ago, a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar, was forced by Syrian prison guards to live in a dark, three-foot-wide, six-foot-deep underground cell.