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World Food Program: 16 Million People Suffer From Hunger in Syria and Yemen

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 10, 2016 | Middle East

The Executive Director of the World Food Program, Ertharin Cousin, said that the Yemeni crisis has significantly worsened the humanitarian situation in the country, and has increased the number of people suffering from hunger by more than 3 million people in just one...

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Members of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent escort civilians with medical needs in the rebel-controlled area of Aleppo to the government-controlled area to seek treatment on February 1, 2015. (Reuters/Ammar Abdullah)

WFP alarmed by pictures of ISIS logos on its Syria food parcels

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 3, 2015 | Middle East

Geneva and Beirut, Reuters—The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has declared itself “extremely concerned” by photographs showing its food parcels being handed out in Syria with Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS) logos on them. Images...

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A displaced child from minority the Yazidi sect, fleeing violence from forces loyal to Islamic State in Sinjar town, carries a bottle of water as he makes his way to the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Sinjar mountain, near the Syrian border town of Elierbeh of Al-Hasakah Governorate August 10, 2014. (REUTERS/Rodi Said)

Opinion: Children do not deserve war

by Aylin Kocaman | Aug 12, 2014 | Opinion

Issa is 10 years old. His whole life has changed since the Syrian conflict began. The streets where he lives are filled with destroyed buildings. He cannot attend school. Most of his friends have died or gone. Because of the war he is now a child worker in the Free...