Residents in the Syrian capital are feeling the effects of the lack of rain with authorities urging them to reduce their ...

Water and water infrastructure are being increasingly targeted with impunity in conflicts from Gaza to Ukraine. The effects ...

Severe drought in Syria this year could lead to the failure of an estimated 75% of local wheat crops, according to the United ...

Syria's capital, Damascus, is suffering from its worst water shortages in years as a result of the lowest rainfall in more ...

Hundreds of thousands of people have died as fighting raged in Gaza, Lebanon, Libya, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen ... It lacks all kinds of basic resources, including water, food, and land for agricultural ...

diverting most of the river’s water." Excessive groundwater extraction on Syria’s side has further worsened the crisis, drying up more than 12,000 wells and causing an annual loss of 180 to 200 ...

On top of the gargantuan costs of rebuilding the country's destroyed electricity, water and road ... warning Syria's neighbors that its food and economic crisis is also a crisis of security.

is rooted in a water crisis. Experts say water scarcity also helped destabilize Syria and launch its civil war. Jordan, which relies on aquifers as its only source of water, is even more water ...

Read on to learn more about the crisis in Syria and why the country ranks ... which will disrupt food production and further limit access to clean water. Agriculture, once a cornerstone of Syria’s ...

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Sir, – After five years, we have entered a new phase of the Syrian conflict. Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, with a population of nearly two million people, was captured within 24 hours ...

The attacks have added to the humanitarian crisis in a region reeling from ... more than a million people without access to water in north east Syria, this film follows the engineers and tanker ...