Syria

Most of the convictions on the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have proven to be false so far, which has urged the West and regional powers to revisit their strategies toward Iraq and Syria.

Over 3 million people have fled the civil war in Syria, according to reports of the United Nations refugee agency.

Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), called the crisis "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era" in a Friday statement.

According to the press release, almost half of all Syrians have been forced to abandon their homes.

President Barack Obama admitted Aug. 29 he did not yet have a strategy to combat the Islamic State of Syria and Levant (ISIL) in Syria, quelling speculation he would unleash imminent U.S. military strikes against the radical Sunni fighters.

More than three million Syrians have fled the civil war ravaging their country to become refugees - a million of them in the past year alone, the United Nations said Aug. 29.

Mother appeals for the return of her child taken to Syria

The United Nations confirmed that an armed group captured 43 UN peacekeepers on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights on Thursday, saying it was doing everything to secure their release.
      

BERLIN - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told reporters on Thursday, ahead of a Western Balkans conference in Berlin, it was important to preserve peace and stability in the region, and that he would do all in his power to make it so.

The mother of a hostage American journalist pleaded for his release Wednesday in a video directed at the Islamic State group, while new images emerged of mass killings, including masked militants shooting kneeling men after the capture of a strategic air base in Syria.
     

Islamic State fighters have executed "dozens" of Syrian soldiers fleeing Tabqa military airport in the north, a monitor said Aug. 28, with the jihadists boasting on Twitter they had killed 200 troops.
      

The European affairs, the situation in Middle East, the eastern neighbourhood of the European Union and the situation in Ukraine were among the topics discussed on Thursday in a plenary session within the Annual Meeting of the Romanian Diplomacy with the participation of Foreign Affairs Minister Titus Corlatean and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Secur