Prime Minister David Cameron has cut his holiday short by a day in order to chair a COBRA meeting on…
The humanitarian crisis in Syria is no longer news. It is simple fact: tragedy writ large, as cities burn and lives are ruined. Our eyes may widen at the sheer scale of this destruction: four million people in need of humanitarian assistance, half a million people uprooted.
The UN have launched a $5 billion (£3.2bn) humanitarian campaign for Syria stating that by the end of the year half of the population of the war-torn country, 10 million people, will be in need of aid.
Humanitarian and developmental aid agencies in Syria say international sanctions against the country have made their operations harder.