Poverty In Syria

Kelambakam, India/Karachi, Pakistan: In a dilapidated shelter in Tamil Nadu’s Kelambakam, surrounded by squalor, Alakamma Bibi dials her home in Myanmar every few hours. All she gets is a beeping tone. In the two weeks since she first heard of the upsurge in violence in Myanmar, she has spent countless hours trying to reach her parents and sibli...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has accused archrival Saudi Arabia of promoting poverty and terrorism by continuing to bomb Yemen and supporting armed rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad in Syria.

More than two-thirds of Syrian refugees in Lebanon live in extreme poverty, according to a United Nations study published today, up nearly 50 percent from last year.

While Putin's eyes are on Syria, inflation is rising in Russia, the economy is shrinking, poverty is increasing and the ruble is taking a fall. Western sanctions are squeezing the Kremlin, and Russia's mother's milk - oil revenue - is taking a hit because of weak prices.

Pope Francis said on Friday fighting hunger and poverty, rather than military intervention alone, were key to stopping Islamist militants carrying out "barbaric violence" in Syria and Iraq.

Child marriages double among Syria refugees in Jordan The number of child marriages has doubled among Syrian refugee girls in Jordan because of poverty and fear of sexual violence, international agencies said on Wednesday.

Before she began working as a hairdresser, poverty forced Syrian Umm Mahmoud to seek donations for food and rent money to survive as a refugee in Lebanon.

Three years of civil war in Syria have had a disastrous effect on the economy, plunging half the population into poverty, a Syrian research centre said in a report released on Thursday.

Kelambakam, India/Karachi, Pakistan: In a dilapidated shelter in Tamil Nadu’s Kelambakam, surrounded by squalor, Alakamma Bibi dials her home in Myanmar every few hours. All she gets is a beeping tone. In the two weeks since she first heard of the upsurge in violence in Myanmar, she has spent countless hours trying to reach her parents and sibli...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has accused archrival Saudi Arabia of promoting poverty and terrorism by continuing to bomb Yemen and supporting armed rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad in Syria.

More than two-thirds of Syrian refugees in Lebanon live in extreme poverty, according to a United Nations study published today, up nearly 50 percent from last year.

While Putin's eyes are on Syria, inflation is rising in Russia, the economy is shrinking, poverty is increasing and the ruble is taking a fall. Western sanctions are squeezing the Kremlin, and Russia's mother's milk - oil revenue - is taking a hit because of weak prices.

Pope Francis said on Friday fighting hunger and poverty, rather than military intervention alone, were key to stopping Islamist militants carrying out "barbaric violence" in Syria and Iraq.

Child marriages double among Syria refugees in Jordan The number of child marriages has doubled among Syrian refugee girls in Jordan because of poverty and fear of sexual violence, international agencies said on Wednesday.

Before she began working as a hairdresser, poverty forced Syrian Umm Mahmoud to seek donations for food and rent money to survive as a refugee in Lebanon.

Three years of civil war in Syria have had a disastrous effect on the economy, plunging half the population into poverty, a Syrian research centre said in a report released on Thursday.