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UK support for Syria crisis

Posted by: DFID Media Team, Posted on: 1 August 2019 - Categories: Syria crisis
Syrian children in a camp for people displaced by conflict in Idlib governorate, Syria, October 2018. Picture credit: UNICEF/Aaref Watad

This week, the UK attended a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to discuss the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Syria. The UK is clear that violence must end and the Syrian regime and Russia must stop military action that is destroying so many innocent people’s lives.

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Syria: 7 years on

Posted by: DFID Media Team, Posted on: 15 March 2018 - Categories: Syria crisis

...recent history. The impact on Syrians, above all civilians, has been devastating with an estimated 400,000 dead and 13 million in need of humanitarian assistance. “The Asad regime and those...

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Suspended Foreign Office aid programme in Syria

Posted by: DFID Media Team, Posted on: 4 December 2017 - Categories: Syria crisis

Today, the BBC, Today Programme, Mail,  Times and other newspapers reported on a Foreign Office aid programme in Syria run by contractor Adam Smith International (ASI).

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