UN: ISIS carrying out executions in east Syria

ISIS is reportedly executing people in eastern Syria, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday, expressing deep concern over the fate of civilians still trapped under the militant group. 

Deir Ezzor’s Hajin area is the last significant remnant of the so-called caliphate ISIS proclaimed in 2014. The rest has been lost to offensives launched by different factions in both Syria and Iraq.

7,000 civilians are trapped between ISIS fighters preventing them from leaving the area and air strikes by the US-led coalition, Michelle Bachelet, told a news conference in Geneva.

"We also have reports of ISIS executing people perceived as cooperating with SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) or other parties to the conflict," she said, adding that civilians were being used as "pawns and bargaining chips" in the conflict.

Syria elected as President of Asia- Pacific Ocean group at UN for November

Asia –Pacific- Ocean group at UN elected Syria as president of the Group, by acclamation, for November.

Palestinian permanent representative to UN, Riad Mansour whose country leads the group in the current month, handed the chairmanship of the group to the Syrian permanent representative to the UN, Bashar al-Jaafri.

Mansour and the member states congratulated al-Jaafri for Syria’s chairmanship of the group.

Asia-Pacific Ocean group is one of the five adopted geographical states at the UN It includes 65 countries.

Syrian Foreign Minister shakes hands with Bahraini counterpart in New York

For the first time in almost 7 years, the Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem shook hands with a senior diplomat from the Gulf States. Al-Moallem and Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifa had a short friendly meeting during the UN General Assembly in New York, where they warmly hugged and shook hands. Except for Oman, all GCC states severed its relations with Syria since the bloody unrest – which later turned into a bloody war – had swept the country on March 2011.