The Government of Italy has contributed €1 million to UNICEF to support the most vulnerable children with severe mental and/or physical disabilities and their families in Syria through provision of regular cash assistance coupled with one-on-one suppor…

In Numbers12 million people food insecure2.5 million severely food insecure6.8 million people internally displacedHighlightsWFP dispatched humanitarian assistance sufficient for an estimated 5.5 million people across all activities in Syria in October….

A 4-year-old child should be able to play outside with his friends. But not Omar, due to a large lesion on his cheek delivered by a sandfly carrying leishmaniasis.Leishmaniasis is serious disease, spread by sandflies which bite uncovered parts of the b…

In numbers5.5 m people assisted in October 2022 (based on dispatches)32,520 mt of food assistance distributedUS$ 3.6 m cash-based transfers madeUS$ 858.4 m six months (November 2022 – April 2023) net funding requirementsOperational UpdatesIn October, W…

Belgium begins proceedings on Monday in its largest ever trial to determine whether 10 men played a part in the Islamist suicide bombings in Brussels in 2016 that killed 32 people and injured over 300.More than six years after the attacks, presiding ju…

BEIRUT — The Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-backed group that helped defeat Islamic State in Syria, said on Monday it had resumed joint counter-terrorism operations with the United States that were paused due to Turkish bombardment of its area of con…