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16 01, 2024
  • A Syrian family organizes their last month of aid from the World Food Program at their home in the Idlib countryside’s Atma displacement camp in December, the same month the UN body announced it would suspend its in-kind food assistance program across Syria due to a lack of funding

Syrians lose WFP lifeline as US slashes funding

By Natacha Danon|2024-02-01T12:12:58+01:00January 16, 2024|

Millions of Syrians face hunger with the suspension of all in-kind WFP food aid this month, in part due to major cuts to US funding. US aid cuts of up to 50 percent are expected across all humanitarian sectors in 2024, senior humanitarian sources said.

15 12, 2023
  • Students gather at the entrance of the middle and high school in the village of Burj al-Qas, in the Sherawa subdistrict south of Afrin, 10/12/2023 (Syria Direct)

Education in Afrin’s ‘line of contact’ villages hostage to unpredictable shelling

By Salam Ali|2023-12-18T13:53:27+01:00December 15, 2023|

Villages on the line of contact between regime and Turkish-backed opposition forces in the southern Afrin countryside live under constant threat of unpredictable shelling. The volatile security situation leaves families choosing between sending their children to school, despite the risks, or depriving them of an education in the hopes of keeping them safe.

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