Excerpts from the news: “I thought once the war ended, our currency would become stronger and our living standards better,” said Saeed al-Khaldi, who transports vegetables across the sprawling city. Damascus’s population has almost doubled since the war started, to over 6 million, as civilians fled violence in other regions. “Instead, we’re living from one crisis […]
This, reported in the Washington Post in 2012. Has anything changed? Huda Khalaf told her husband not to fight. She remembers telling him: “I don’t want to lose you. I don’t want my kids to grow up without a father.” She said she would leave him if he insisted, which they both knew was an empty […]
This is what the UN Commission on Humanitarian Affairs is reporting: Sustained hostilities in south-west Syria since 17 June have led to the displacement of an estimated 271,800 individuals as of 2 July. Of those, approximately 60,000 displaced to areas in close proximity to the Nasib/Jaber border crossing with Jordan, including the free zone, and […]