A recent UNRWA report detailed the ‘economic catastrophe’ wrought by the Syrian conflict. If the conflict were to end today, the UN agency said, Syria’s economy would take 30 years to recover to 2010 levels. A chunk of that devastation is measured in the...

Khaled Hosseini, author of 'The Kite Runner' and a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, visits a Syrian refugee camp in Kurdish Iraq and is moved by families desperate to provide for themselves and not to be reliant on the generosity of local people In the Kurdish region of Iraq, I sit...

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The Western-backed opposition Syrian National Coalition held elections for the body’s political commission and its health, education and interior ministers on Sunday during the second day of a three-day conference in Istanbul. Dr. Muhi al-Din Bananeh won Education...