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Water Supply Crisis in Damascus

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 29, 2016 | Middle East

At least four million people in Damascus have been without safe drinking water supplies for more than a week after springs outside the Syrian capital were deliberately targeted, the United Nations said on Thursday. A resident and rebels in the area said pro-regime air...

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An Iraqi refugee girl waits with her parents to buy food from a local vendor behind the fence of the Khazir refugee camp near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski Kalak, 25 miles west of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on Nov. 21, 2016. (THOMAS COEX / AFP – Getty Images)

U.N. : 68,000 Iraqis displaced from Mosul

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 23, 2016 | Middle East

London – U.N. announced that 68,000 citizens have fled their homes since Iraqi forces began a huge offensive against ISIS in Mosul last month. The number has significantly increased over the past week as Iraqi forces entered densely populated city. Yet, the numbers...

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A view of buildings ravaged by fighting in Sirte, Libya, in 2011. Manu Brabo/AP

U.N. Launches Appeal for $10.7 Million to Meet Urgent Humanitarian Needs in Libya

by Heba El Koudsy | Sep 21, 2016 | World

New York – The United Nations and humanitarian agencies in Libya issued an urgent appeal on Tuesday for $10.7 million to meet urgent humanitarian needs for around 80,000 people trapped in the city of Sirte. U.N. and its partners in Libya are “preparing a...

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Fifth relief plane of King Salman Center arrives in Yemeni Socotra province. SPA

King Salman Relief Center Underwrites Yemen’s WHO Membership

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 4, 2016 | Middle East, Saudi Arabia

Riyadh-The King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aids (KSCRHA) has effectively covered Yemen’s WHO contribution for the last four years which sums to a total of $185,790. In its aims to aid the people of Yemen, the center has paid the dues of Yemen’s Ministry...

UN predicts 4 million Syrians displaced in 2014

by Heba El Koudsy | Oct 8, 2013 | Middle East

Washington, Asharq Al-Awsat—A report from the United Nations has predicted that 2 million more Syrians will become refugees in the near future, and estimated about 2.25 million will be internally displaced in 2014, says Reuters. The news agency reported on Monday that...