Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's ouster last month in a lightning insurgency, the country's dire economic conditions haven't changed.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Executive director of the World Food Programme Cindy McCain speaks with the Associated Press in Damascus ...

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WFP chief Cindy McCain said Syria’s struggle with hunger is a national and regional security issue, especially as the country goes through a critical transition period. “What’s at stake here ...

The director of the UN World Food Program warned that some governments resist calls to boost funds for urgent humanitarian needs in Syria

After Assad’s fall, al-Baghdadi was finally able to return. Like many, he was euphoric and hoped it would pave the way for better times despite the many challenges that lay ahead, including rampant power cuts and fuel shortages.

DAMASCUS: Samir al-Baghdad grabbed his pickax and walked up a wobbly set of stairs made of cinderblocks and rubble. He is rebuilding his destroyed family house

That in turn could defuse tensions across the wider Middle East, where the war has stoked conflict in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iraq ... able to bring it in at scale,” said Cindy McCain, World Food Program executive ...

Photo: Photo by Maurizio Martorana for the Wall Street Journal Cindy McCain, the executive director of the United Nations’ World Food Programme, says aid workers in Gaza are seeing "smooth ...

Focus on Islamic teachings in police training raises concern among some Syrians Police trainers say this is to instil a sense of morality in recruits Bashar al-Assad's security forces had a ...

DAMASCUS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Syria's central bank has ordered commercial banks to freeze all accounts tied to people and companies linked to the ousted regime of former President Bashar al-Assad ...

A few weeks later, Mr al-Shaibani resurfaced in Damascus in the cabinet of Syria’s new interim government. On January 15th he made an official visit to Turkey, where he had lived for over a ...