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For the first time in Syria’s 12-year war, people in every district are experiencing some degree of “humanitarian stress,” and a staggering 15.3 million — nearly 70% of the population — need humanitarian aid, the United Nations said Tuesday. A UN appeal for $5.4 billion to help over 14 million people in Syria is less than 10% funded and the UN World Food Program has warned that without additional money, 2.5 million people are at risk of losing food or cash assistance from July.

The United Nations warns that Syria's 12-year civil war has produced a dire degree of "humanitarian stress" with millions in need of help.A U.N. appeal for $5.4 billion that would aid more than 14 million people in Syria is reported as less than 10% funded.The U.N. humanitarian office's operations director highlighted the severe humanitarian crisis,

Nearly 70% of all Syrians, about 15.3 million people, are in need of humanitarian assistance, the United Nations said Tuesday. A U.N. appeal for $5.4...

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Intense clashes could be heard in Sudan's capital on Tuesday, residents said, after military factions battling for more than six weeks agreed to extend a cease-fire

Five members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine armed group were killed in an overnight explosion near Lebanon's border with Syria, security sources told Reuters on Wednesday, with the group blaming Israeli air strikes. An Israeli source told Reuters the Israeli military was not involved in the Syria-Lebanon border blast. Lebanon's army declined to comment.

The first technical salvage vessel arrived Tuesday near the rusting Safer oil tanker floating off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations said. The arrival of Ndeavor, which set off from neighboring Djibouti on Monday, marks the first step of an estimated four- to six-week UN operation aiming to avert a major oil spill from the tanker, representatives from the international body announced. Experts say the tanker poses a major environmental threat.

The second shipment of fertilizers Moscow offered to Africa at no cost has arrived in Kenya, its producer said on Monday Read Full Article at RT.com

Türkiye has slowed down the pace of its efforts to normalize ties with Syria. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has no plans to hold talks with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said in the first presidential statement following Erdogan’s reelection for a third five-year term on Sunday. "So far, there is no date for such a meeting... We need to see what steps the Syrian side will take," he said in a televised interview on Monda...

Sudan's warring military factions agreed on Monday to a five-day extension of a ceasefire agreement, after renewed heavy clashes and air strikes in the capital threw fresh doubts on the effectiveness of a truce designed to ease a humanitarian crisis. Saudi Arabia and the United States, which brokered a week-long ceasefire deal and have been monitoring it remotely, announced shortly before it was due to expire on Monday evening the parties had agreed to extend it.