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  • March 12, 2018
    UN aid convoy returns to eastern Ghouta

    The United Nations and partners reached the Syrian city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta on 9 March 2018 to complete the distribution of food aid after intense shelling cut short deliveries to the war-torn enclave earlier in the week.

  • March 1, 2018
    Displaced Iraqis forced to return to destruction left in wake of war on IS

    The majority of Iraqis currently displaced in Anbar province by the war against Islamic State (IS) feel safer in camps than back home, aid agencies have warned, amid moves by Iraqi authorities to return thousands of families to their places of origin, at times with fatal consequences.

  • January 21, 2018
    One in four Iraqi children impacted by conflict and poverty

    More than four million children have been impacted by extreme violence in Iraq, many robbed of their childhood and forced to fight on the frontlines, says the United Nations Children’s Fund.

  • December 5, 2017
    NGOs call for immediate ceasefire in Yemen

    Oxfam says, “escalated violence is impeding our life saving operations as our staff take shelter from shelling. The international community urgently needs to put pressure all sides to end this horror in Yemen and bring immediate relief."