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Samir al-Baghdadi, 46, left, stands on his brother Fayez outside his family's home that was destroyed during the civil war in the Qaboun neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Syria’s economic pains far from over despite Assad’s ouster

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

Executive director of the World Food Programme Cindy McCain speaks with the Associated Press in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday Jan. 14, 2025.(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

UN food agency says some donors are hesitant to fund urgent Syrian aid under the new authorities

FILE - The image provided by U.S, Central Command, shows U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade (Expeditionary), U.S. Navy sailors assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Israel Defense Forces placing the Trident Pier on the coast of Gaza Strip on May 16, 2024. A key section of the U.S. military-built pier designed to carry badly needed aid into Gaza by boat has been reconnected to the Gaza beach following storm damage repairs and aid will begin to flow soon, the U.S. Central Command announced Friday. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

UN food agency pauses its aid work at US pier in Gaza over security concerns, in latest setback

FILE - Sudanese displaced people gather at the Zam Zam refugee camp outside the town of El-Fashir in the Darfour region of Sudan, during a visit by U.N. officials, on July 1, 2004. The U.N. humanitarian aid and refugee agencies appealed Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, for $4.1 billion in international support for embattled civilians in Sudan amid signs that some may be dying of starvation after nearly a year of war there between the forces of rival generals. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)

Sudan’s conflict risks creating the world’s largest hunger crisis, the top UN food official warns

FILE - President Joe Biden is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Biden walks a tightrope with his support for Israel as his party’s left urges restraint

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Chelsea Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

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This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

Yemeni police say they’ve arrested 2 suspects in the killing of a senior World Food Program official

Abdikadir Omar walks to a shelter with his wife and children, who made a 12-day journey from Somalia in search of food and safety, to Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya, Thursday, July 13, 2023. One of the world's largest refugee camps offers a stark example of the global food security crisis with thousands of people fleeing Somalia in recent months to escape drought and extremism but finding little to eat when they arrive at the Dadaab camp in neighboring Kenya. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

In a refugee camp in Kenya, food shortages left kids hungry even before Russia ended grain deal

FILE - Nunay Mohamed, 25, who fled the drought-stricken Lower Shabelle area, holds her one-year old malnourished child at a makeshift camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia on June 30, 2022. Two U.N. agencies are warning of rising food emergencies including starvation in Sudan due to the outbreak of war and in Haiti, Burkina Faso and Mali due to restricted movements of people and goods. The four countries join Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen at the highest alert levels. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

UN says Somalia faces a `dire hunger emergency’ but aid has been cut over lack of funding

People displaced by gang violence from the area of Cite Soleil sit at a makeshift shelter in the Delmas neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, June 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

UN agencies decry humanitarian crisis in Haiti and seek help for hungry families fleeing violence