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Economic duress has been compounding the impact of the conflict in Syria – even before the COVID-19 pandemic touched the country.

‘Immediate nationwide ceasefire’ needed for all-out effort to counter COVID-19 in Syria

30 March 2020

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The Kafr Lousin camp in Idlib, northwestern Syria.

As children freeze to death in Syria, aid officials call for major cross-border delivery boost

2 March 2020

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On 11 October 2019 in the Syrian Arab Republic, a woman and children sit underneath a truck as people displaced from Ras al-Ain arrive in Tal Tamer, having fled escalating violence.

Military operation in northeast Syria could see unintentional release of ISIL affiliates: UN chief

14 October 2019

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A child walks in Al Hol camp in north-east Syria. The camp is home to more than 70,000 people, of which more than 90% are women and children (16 June 2019)

Civilians ‘must not be a target’, urges UNHCR, following military escalation in northern Syria

10 October 2019

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Repatriated Burundians from Tanzania in the transit center of Mabanda, Makamba province, Burundi. (24 April 2018)

Wednesday’s Daily Brief: Fear rampant in Burundi, WHO on nutrition, Hurricane Dorian latest, Cyberbullying poll, Bachelet, one year on

4 September 2019

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Life is slowly returning to this street in the Juret Al-Shayah district of Homs, Syria. Residents trickling back to the neighbourhoods they fled to escape fighting find desolate and lifeless streets, only half-cleared of rubble and without electricity or water. (4 March 2019)

UN Security Council ‘utterly failed’ Syrian detainees; a victim voices her plea to ‘end impunity and stop this horror’

7 August 2019

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Families spend the night in a makeshift camp in Atmah village near the Turkish border with nothing more than blankets and bedsheets hung from olive trees to protect them for the elements, after hostilities in northern Hama, southern Idlib and western Aleppo governorates in Syria continued unabated. (June 2019)

‘Do something’; UN relief chief urges Security Council action to stop the Syrian carnage unfolding ‘in front of your eyes’

30 July 2019

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A street in Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria. The OPCW Fact-Finding Mission said there were "reasonable grounds" to believe chlorine gas had been used in a chemical weapons attack in April 2018.

Security Council discusses chemical weapons use in Syria following latest global watchdog report

6 March 2019

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A child sitting at a desk in a school that was attacked, in Idlib, Syria. 2016.

Idlib deal could save three million ‘from catastrophe’ says UN chief, as militants are urged to lay down arms

20 September 2018

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A camp in northern rural Aleppo for displaced people that fled the violence in Afrin, Syria. 26 July 2018.

A record one million Syrians displaced over six months, during six key battles: UN investigators

12 September 2018

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