Families in Syria’s Sweida Governorate are trapped without medical care, clean water or enough food after fighting closed hospitals, cut off roads and broken water systems, said Save the Children, calling for immediate safe access for aid.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), through its award-winning ShareTheMeal app, has partnered with Careem, a leading multi-service app in the Middle East, to launch a donation campaign across Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
Key drivers of food insecurity in Yemen include worsening economic challenges, substantial reductions in humanitarian assistance gaps caused by funding shortages, limited livelihood activities, localized conflict, and the delayed and insufficient rainfall.
Since 12 July, armed hostilities and clashes escalated in As-Sweida Governorate, southern Syria, causing deaths and injuries among civilians and large-scale internal displacement.
On November 5, 2024, the IFRC launched an Emergency Appeal to support the Lebanese Red Cross in responding to the escalating humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, aiming to assist 700,000 affected individuals.
Amid heightened regional tensions in June, the risk of conflict spillover into Lebanon remained high. Despite Israel’s partial withdrawal, it still occupies five border positions, and ceasefire violations persist
Malnutrition in South Sudan remains a persistent public health concern, with rates of acute malnutrition continuing to exceed the WHO emergency thresholds. In 2025, worsening food insecurity, conflict, and systemic health service disruptions have intensified the nutrition crisis, particularly among children under five and pregnant or breastfeeding women.
The primary objective of the 2025 Multi-Sector Needs Assessment (MSNA) is to assess the multifaceted needs, coping strategies, and humanitarian situation across all four most affected governorates- South, El Nabatieh, Baalbek-El Hermel and Bekaa - as well as Baabda district in Mount Lebanon Governorate.
South Sudan is currently facing a severe humanitarian crisis characterised by extensive internal displacement. The underlying causes of these displacement dynamics are varied and include communal clashes, land disputes, insecurity, violence, disasters, and cross-border movements.
Just after the Gaza ceasefire came into effect on 19 January 2025, Israeli forces launched on 21 January a major militarized operation in the West Bank, dubbed “Iron Wall”. The operation began in Jenin, but soon expanded across the northern West Bank, with the refugee camps of Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams being at the centre of operations.
A massive increase in people fleeing to Tawila in North Darfur over the last three months is propelling the small town into a full-scale humanitarian crisis.
The Migration, Environment, and Climate Change (MECC) Country Report on Yemen by IOM explores the complex links between climate change, environmental degradation, and human mobility in Yemen.
Escalated armed clashes in Moqokori town, Hiraan region, have displaced at least 1,130 households (at least 6,780 people) to villages in the Buloburto, Jalalaqsi, and Mahas districts.
Yemen remains one of the world’s most acute and complex humanitarian crises. In 2025, protracted conflict, economic decline, and extreme weather driven by climate change have left more than 19.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.
Massive wildfires have raged across Latakia Governorate for seven consecutive days, with Syrian authorities calling the situation “catastrophic” and “a real environmental disaster.”
Despite the official pronouncement of a ceasefire, election of a president and formation of a reform-oriented government, the socio-economic situation in Lebanon remained fragile, and the country continued to face serious challenges, compounded by intermitted armed escalations and displacement in Q1 2025.
Following a week-long pause on truck movements due to security and access concerns, WFP resumed truck movements into Gaza on 25 June. WFP aims to deliver 2,000 mt daily across both northern and southern Gaza.
Mass atrocities are underway in Sudan's North Darfur region, with thousands of people affected by indiscriminate and ethnically targeted violence including looting, mass killings, sexual violence, abductions, and attacks against markets, health facilities and other civilian infrastructures.
Evidence gathered by Amnesty International demonstrates how over a month since the introduction of its militarized aid distribution system, Israel has continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide.
