German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned in her new year’s address of the terrorist threat facing Germany, saying that her government will take whatever steps are necessary to ensure the country’s security. In her New Year’s speech, Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the past 12 months…
Russia and France have announced agreement on a compromise U.N. resolution to deploy U.N. monitors to eastern Aleppo to ensure safe evacuations and immediate delivery of humanitarian aid. France’s U.N. ambassador Francois Delattre told reporters after more than three hours of closed consultations Sunday that the…
The UN Security Council on December 18 is set to vote on a French-drafted proposal to send monitors to Aleppo to observe evacuations from besieged areas of the Syrian city. The council will meet at 11:00 am (1600 GMT) to decide on the draft resolution, despite resistance from Russia, Syria’s ally and a…
A seven-year-old Syrian girl from Aleppo is posting to her Twitter account to show the world she and her mother are surviving amid airstrikes in the city. “I am sad. It’s so bad,” she tells her audience in English in a clip posted on Twitter. She is later seen holding a banner reading: “Stand with Aleppo.…