Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country's dire economic conditions haven't changed.

The recent ceasefire in Gaza has provided a crucial opportunity for humanitarian efforts, significantly improving conditions for the aid organisations, said the chief of the UN’s World Food Programme.

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warning Syria’s neighbors that its food and economic crisis is also a crisis of security. “Hunger does not breed good will,” Cindy McCain said in an interview during her first visit to Damascus.

The director of the UN World Food Program warned that some governments resist calls to boost funds for urgent humanitarian needs in Syria

Thursday night brought a big change to Davos — and not just because it snowed for the first time all week. At just past 5 p.m., U.S. President Donald Trump presented his “America First” priorities virtually, telling the crowd: “Three days ago I took the oath of office, and we began the Golden Age of America.”

That in turn could defuse tensions across the wider Middle East, where the war has stoked conflict in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq ... able to bring it in at scale,” said Cindy McCain, World Food Program executive ...

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Photo: Photo by Maurizio Martorana for the Wall Street Journal Cindy McCain, the executive director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme, says aid workers in Gaza are seeing "smooth ...

As members of Congress decide whether or not to support legislation authorizing military strikes against Syria with the knowledge ... Senator John McCain said he was “struck” by a recent ...

Syria's new administration does not seek bloodshed with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the country's Kurdish population, de facto Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday.

Focus on Islamic teachings in police training raises concern among some Syrians Police trainers say this is to instil a sense of morality in recruits Bashar al-Assad's security forces had a ...