The Syrian government allowed hundreds of students to leave two besieged areas near Damascus to take their year-end exams over the weekend, even as other suburbs of the capital came under fierce attack. The government is eager to show that it is still providing services, ...
A lack of funds has forced the United Nations to stop providing food vouchers for 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, the World Food Program said on Monday. "Without WFP vouchers, many families will go hungry. For refugees already struggling ...
Hundreds of residents of a Liberian slum lined up to receive rice and water from government officials Thursday in their neighborhood that was sealed off from the rest of the capital in an attempt to halt the spread of Ebola. Security forces erected barbed-wire wrapped ...
A U.N. World Food Program emergency coordinator for Syria urged Japan and the rest of the international community Friday to come up with more funding to supply food aid to Syrians both inside and outside the country. Speaking at the Japan National Press Club in ...
