Earlier in Rome, WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin said the agency's Syria emergency operations were in critical need of funding, including US$64 million in December alone for refugee food ...

The wheat fields outside Seqalbia, near the Syrian city of Hama, should be golden and heavy with grain. Instead, Maher Haddad's 40 dunums (10 acres) are dry and empty, barely yielding a third of their ...