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Security Council LIVE: Syria’s transition in the spotlight

A UNICEF-supported mobile team member named Siba facilitates a personal safety awareness session with a group of children inside a tent at a camp in Mleihat, Dar’a Governorate, Syria.

© UNICEF/Sandra Awad Children attend a safety awareness session facilitated at a camp in Mleihat, in Dar’a governorate, Syria.

Security Council LIVE: Syria’s transition in the spotlight

17 September 2026 Peace and Security

While Syria is making progress in its political transition, the Security Council is meeting to hear briefings and discuss the situation on the ground, including recent reports of deadly armed clashes with an ISIS-affiliate terrorist group in the south and protests over rising fuel prices.

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Residents survey damage at unfinished housing projects in Aleppo, Syria, after displacement and fighting. The 1070 and Riyada projects show extensive destruction.

Security Council LIVE: Addressing the legacy of Syria’s chemical weapons

3 September 2026

Peace and Security

Following revelations from the UN nuclear watchdog that the former Syrian regime failed to report holding nuclear material and the discovery in May of an undeclared chemical weapons cache, the Security Council met Thursday to be briefed on the latest developments and discuss the way ahead.

UNDP workers in Syria clearing debris from a building site.

Syria’s transition hinges on justice for all, UN Human Rights Council hears

8 September 2026

Peace and Security

A successful and lasting transition in Syria requires comprehensive accountability, inclusion and guarantees that violations will not be repeated, UN independent investigators told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday.