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PHOTOS: Inside the World’s Largest Humanitarian Relief Depot

UN Dispatch recently visited a vast complex on the outskirts of Dubai that stores humanitarian relief items for dispatch anywhere in the world. When disaster strikes, this places snaps into action. These photos offer a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse into the...

Security Council Passes New Aleppo Resolution. Monitors to Be Deployed

After a weekend of intense negotiations, the Security Council voted unanimously today to deploy monitors to oversee the evacuation of eastern Aleppo. These monitors will be drawn from UN staff and workers from the International Committee for the Red Cross/Crescent...

CNN Journalist Clarissa Ward Snuck Behind the Front Lines in Syria then Briefed the Security Council About What She Saw

Clarissa Ward is an award winning journalist who has covered conflict for over a decade, mostly in the Middle East. She is now with CNN and earlier this year she and a small crew snuck into rebel held territory in...

There’s New Evidence of Chemical Weapons in Syria, Now a Showdown is Looming at the Security Council

Chemical Weapons have been used — again — in Syria. A report transmitted to the Security Council yesterday by a the UN-backed Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons found several instances of chemical...

Here’s the strategic logic that explains why fighters are inflicting such misery on the people of Aleppo

There is a catastrophe underway in the Syrian city of Aleppo. The city has been at the center of fighting since the civil war broke out in 2011, but in recent weeks the battle for Aleppo has become much more...

The Siege of Aleppo Could Be the Most Depraved Moment of the Entire Syrian Civil War

On 9th July the Syrian regime closed the last open road to eastern Aleppo. Bashar Al-Assad’s forces now control what goes in and goes out of the rebel-held city – and the 300,000 people are trapped inside. The siege had long...

UN Panel Says Attacks on Yazidis is a Genocide. Now What?

A UN human rights panel released evidence today that ISIS is committing genocide against the Yazidi group, a religious minority that for centuries has lived along the border of Iraq and Syria. The area is known as Sinjar, and in August...

Why Did the USA Just Deny a Visa to a Heroic Syrian NGO Leader Visiting to Pick Up an Award?

The head of the Syrian Civil Defense, or White Helmets as they are popularly known, has won a prestigious international humanitarian award. Raed Saleh was chosen by InterAction, an umbrella group representing humanitarian NGOs, for their Humanitarian Award 2016. The annual InterAction...

Now that Palmyra Has Been Liberated, A Pathway to Stop ISIS?

Palmyra was one of the best preserved sites of antiquity of the last 1,500 years. That was, until ISIS overran the city last May. Now that the city has been liberated, the international community is taking stock of the damage...

PHOTOS: Inside the World’s Largest Humanitarian Relief Depot

Security Council Passes New Aleppo Resolution. Monitors to Be Deployed

CNN Journalist Clarissa Ward Snuck Behind the Front Lines in Syria then Briefed the Security Council About What She Saw

There’s New Evidence of Chemical Weapons in Syria, Now a Showdown is Looming at the Security Council

Here’s the strategic logic that explains why fighters are inflicting such misery on the people of Aleppo

The Siege of Aleppo Could Be the Most Depraved Moment of the Entire Syrian Civil War

UN Panel Says Attacks on Yazidis is a Genocide. Now What?

Why Did the USA Just Deny a Visa to a Heroic Syrian NGO Leader Visiting to Pick Up an Award?

Now that Palmyra Has Been Liberated, A Pathway to Stop ISIS?

UNAIDS and the Millennium Villages

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 5 – Bathing in Yakawlang

Embedded With Afghan Civil Society – Part 6 – The Legacy of War Crimes

The Obama Agenda at the United Nations