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Aid workers question effectiveness of U.N. Syria aid

By Dasha Afanasieva GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - Seven weeks after U.N. aid trucks crossed from Turkey into Syria for the first time, aid workers and officials in this southern Turkish humanitarian hub still have no idea exactly where the supplies ended up. The convoy...

Blame traded over water shortage in Aleppo

Government and rebels accuse each other of being responsible for cutting water supply to Syrian city, observatory says. Residents of Aleppo, Syria's largest city, have been without water for a week because fighters have cut supplies into rebel and...

Syria may face worst wheat harvest in 40 years

War and drought have crippled Syria's wheat crop, with some experts now forecasting output of the staple food could fall to around a third of pre-war levels, and possibly even below 1 million metric tons ( 1 metric ton = 1.1023 tons) for the first time in 40 years, Reuters said in an...