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“It’s a real disaster zone,” said Mark Cutts, the UN deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis of the camps in the northwest.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Heavy snow and freezing rain have seriously affected about...

Heavy snow and freezing rain have seriously affected about 250,000 displaced Syrians living in camps in the last major opposition stronghold in northwestern Syria, with tents collapsing and children having to walk in the snow in sandals, a senior U.N. humanitarian official said Monday.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Heavy snow and freezing rain have seriously affected about 250,000 displaced Syrians living in camps in the last major opposition

Roughly 1,000 tents used by the UN to shelter internally-displaced persons in northwest Syria have collapsed or been badly damaged by snow, an official

The UN is highly concerned about the safety and security of civilians in northeast Syria following last weeks Hasakah prison breakout of Islamic State (IS) prisoners, a UN spokesman has said.

AFRIN, Syria (Reuters) - Five-year-old Intissar and her younger sister Lin were sheltering from northern Syria's bitter winter cold when fuel from a h...

Many of Syria's nearly three million displaced people face dire winter conditions with a brutal snow storm hammering the region, the United Nations warned Monday as it urged the international community do more to protect them.

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LONDON: Brutal winter conditions in northern Syria have ushered in mass-scale suffering for 2.8 million internally displaced persons, a top UN humanitarian official warned on Monday. “We’re extremely concerned about the situation there,” Mark Cutts, the UN’s deputy regional humanitarian coordinator for Syria, said in a briefing attended by Arab News. The IDPs, he added, are