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UN deputy Syria coordinator on funding conference

Despite the worsening humanitarian situation across war-ravaged Syria, it's been getting tougher every year to raise money from global donors. The aid community is bracing for significant shortfalls ahead of a donor conference that starts Monday in Brussels and is being co-hosted by the...

Kurdish led forces carry raids on tents in Syrian camp

Thousands of Kurdish-led forces, with assistance from the U.S.-led coalition, launched a military operation Sunday at a sprawling camp in northeast Syria, in a new effort to identify and arrest Islamic State militants and tamp down escalating killings and violence in the camp. The...

Pleas for more aid to Syria: 'We don't have nearly enough'

At age 19, Fatima al-Omar is at her wits' end. In the last year alone, she lost her home to fighting in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave and her mother was diagnosed with cancer. She became the sole breadwinner for her mother, three siblings and grandmother as they moved around between...