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Calls on all the parties to allow humanitarian agencies rapid, safe and unhindered access throughout Syria. 2401: 24 February 2018 Unanimous Calls for a nationwide ceasefire in Syria for 30 days starting from 24 February 2018. 2449: 13 December 2018 Unanimous Renewing the authorisation for cross-border and cross-line humanitarian access to ...
The British Royal Air Force began operating over Syria in a surveillance role on the same date, making the UK the first Western country other than the U.S. to operate in both Iraq and Syria simultaneously. [66] On 22 October, the U.S. carried out a 27th round of airstrikes with six airstrikes against ISIL targets in and around Kobanî.
Lowcock serves as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator and the Head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. [87] Russia, aided by China's support, has vetoed the resolution to retain all four border crossings. An alternate resolution also did not ...
On 21 May 2015, the United States admitted it "probably" killed two children in bombings near Harem on 4 and 5 November 2014. These are the first such admissions of the campaign, and followed a military investigation. A similar investigation regarding an event in Syria is underway, and two regarding events in Iraq. [376]
The following is a timeline of the Syrian uprising from September to December 2011.This period saw the uprising take on many of the characteristics of a civil war, according to several outside observers, including the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, as armed elements became better organized and began carrying out successful attacks in retaliation for the ongoing crackdown by the ...
In October 2022, the United Nations called for a "nationwide ceasefire" in Syria. The U.N. special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, met with Syria's foreign minister in Damascus; afterwards, Pedersen said that Syria's economic situation is “extremely difficult as close to 15 million people are in need for humanitarian assistance."
The Four committees initiative is a proposal put forward by United Nations envoy Staffan de Mistura on 29 July 2015 as a way to start the peace process in the Syrian civil war. [27] There had been no peace talks on Syria since the Geneva II meetings in early 2014 ended in failure. [28]
On 23 February 2012, the evening before an international “Friends of Syria” conference organised by the Arab League in Tunisia, the United Nations and the Arab League together appointed Kofi Annan as their envoy to Syria. [1] 70 nations were present on the conference, Russia and China not among them; Syria called those nations attending ...