Syria

Young boys collect water from UNICEF-supported a water point in east Aleppo City in Syria.
© UNICEF/Khuder Al-Issa

Syria’s decade of ‘death, destruction, displacement, disease, dread and despair’

29 March 2021
Peace and Security

Now is not the moment to reduce humanitarian aid to Syria, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Monday, stressing that after 10 years of conflict, more support was needed to avoid further “dramatic and widespread” deterioration. 

A child looks over a flooded area of Kafr Losin Camp in north-west Syria.
UNICEF/Khaled Akacha

‘No respite’ for civilians in Syria, UN officials urge international support

29 March 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Senior United Nations officials have called on the international community to step up funding for relief programmes supporting millions of people in Syria and the region, who depend on the life-saving assistance and livelihood support after a decade of brutal conflict. 

Syria’s decade of conflict has taken a massive toll on women and girls.
© UNFPA Syria

Syria’s decade of conflict takes massive toll on women and girls

16 March 2021
Women

This week, Syria marks a grim anniversary: 10 years since the start of the country’s grinding conflict. Today, one decade into the catastrophe, about half the country’s population has been uprooted, with some 12 million people internally displaced or living as refugees.  

A destroyed classroom at a girls high school in Syria, that was attacked in March 2020.
UNICEF/Ali Haj Suleiman

Syria: Grim 10-year anniversary of ‘unimaginable violence and indignities’ 

15 March 2021
Peace and Security

As the Syrian war reaches its grim decade-long milestone, the UN envoy for the country told the Security Council on Monday that it will “go down as one of the darkest chapters in recent history” referring to the Syrian people as among “the greatest victims of this century”. 

A restaurant reopens for business amid the destruction of war in east Aleppo in Syria.
© UNHCR/Vivian Tou’meh

FROM THE FIELD: Syrian photographers find hope despite 10 years of civil war

15 March 2021
Humanitarian Aid

The pain and deprivation of individual Syrians and the widespread destruction, a decade of conflict has wrought on Syria, has been documented in a series of images taken by 16 photographers working in the country.

Syrian refugee and poet, Amineh Abou Kerech, (16) left her war-torn country at the age of seven.
Mohammad Abou Kerech

First Person: Poetry and the pain of loss and leaving; a voice from Syria

14 March 2021
Culture and Education

A young Syrian woman has told the United Nations how poetry helped her to convey the emotions of all the children who have been caught up in the decade-long civil war in her country.

Children play in a camp for displaced people in southern Idlib, Syria.
UNOCHA

FROM THE FIELD: Syria statistics tell tragic tale of decade-long conflict

12 March 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Ten numbers for each year of Syria’s seemingly interminable conflict: the UN’s Humanitarian agency (OCHA) has marked this tragic milestone by highlighting in figures the country’s miserable decade of suffering and loss.

Destroyed buildings in eastern Aleppo city, Syria.
OCHA/Halldorsson

Fate still unclear of ‘tens of thousands’ of civilian detainees in Syria 

1 March 2021
Human Rights

The fate of tens of thousands of civilians being held in Syria’s “notorious” prisons or detention centres is still unclear, 10 years after the country’s civil war began, UN investigators said on Monday. 

A baby is screened for malnutrition at Al-Hol camp in northern Syria.
© UNICEF/Masoud Hasen

UNICEF urges repatriation of all children in Syria’s Al-Hol camp following deadly fire

28 February 2021
Peace and Security

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Sunday urged all countries to repatriate and safely reintegrate their young nationals being held at Syria’s largest camp for refugees and internally-displaced, following a deadly weekend fire at Al-Hol camp which saw at least three children die, and another 15 injured.

A nine-month-old baby eats a nutritional peanut paste at a clinic in Tartous, Syria.
© WFP/Hussam Al Saleh

Syria: Economic decline, rising hunger and surging humanitarian needs

25 February 2021
Humanitarian Aid

Syria’s fragile economy has “suffered multiple shocks” over the past 18 months, with its currency plummeting and joblessness swelling as people struggle to cover their basic needs, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator told the Security Council on Thursday.