Aid to Lebanon will only be effective if it evolves to avoid the mistakes of the past and finally confronts the country’s legacy of structural corruption.

After surviving years of conflict, violence, and an economic blockade, Gazans now face a new hardship. Cases of COVID-19 are spiking in the Gaza Strip. With fewer than 100 ICU beds and even fewer ventilators, Gaza’s weakened healthcare system may not be able to absorb the added shock of the COVID-19 pandemic without significant and immediate assistance.

Idlib, surrounded by virus-struck regions including Turkey, northeast Syria, and Syrian regime-controlled areas, is like a tinderbox waiting for the match. Syrian doctors inside the province and right across the border in Turkey believe the arrival of the virus is imminent. Humanitarian organizations are bracing for the worst.

The world’s more than 70 million forcibly displaced people—including refugees, asylum seekers, IDPs, and other forced migrants—are among the most vulnerable to the novel coronavirus.

Lebanon plays host to more refugees per capita than any other country in the world, including 1.5 million Syrian refugees. As Lebanon’s political and economic situation deteriorates, refugees who were already in vulnerable conditions are not being spared from the shockwaves of the crisis.

A military offensive by the Syrian regime and its Russian ally in Syria’s northwest Idlib province has displaced more than half a million people from their homes, causing a humanitarian nightmare. This report examines the humanitarian crisis and offers solutions that could save thousands of lives and alleviate the suffering of hundreds of thousands more.

To avert a catastrophe in Lebanon, foreign donors need to change how they deliver aid to the country.

In late August, the coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, found a foothold in the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated territories in the World. Amid lockdowns and a blockade, Gazans now face a "quarantine within a quarantine".

As the world gathers aid for the people of Lebanon, it must ensure that it gets to those who need it.

Armed groups from Boko Haram and al-Shabaab in Africa to Hayat Tahrir as-Sham in Syria to MS13 and Barrio 18 gangs in El Salvador continue to engage in violence despite the United Nations’ Secretary-General call for a global ceasefire amid COVID-19.

This International Women’s Day, Refugees International is celebrating the strength and leadership of women on the frontlines of displaced communities. Despite the heightened challenges they face on the move, displaced women around the globe are rising up to work toward a better future.

Facing a new wave of violence and displacement, people inside Idlib told Refugees International that conditions in the province are beyond their imagination, even after seeing nearly nine years of brutal war.

After a recent ceasefire in Syria’s northwest fell apart, renewed fighting has forced civilians to flee once again, some for the third, fourth, or fifth time.

One of the greatest humanitarian disasters in Syria to date is looming. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his backers, including Russia and Iran, have steadily regained control of most of the country. The northwest governor of Idlib and its surroundings in northern Hama and Aleppo countryside are the rebels’ last stronghold. Now Damascus and its allies are applying their brutal efforts there. While the immediate threat to civilians there is dire, if Assad isn’t stopped what comes after could be even worse.

Senior Advocate for the Middle East Sahar Atrache comments on the rapid spread of COVID-19 in the Gaza Strip.

Statement from Senior Advocate for the Middle East Sahar Atrache on Russia’s veto of a draft UN Security Council resolution that would have renewed cross-border aid to Northwest Syria.

A humanitarian catastrophe of unthinkable scale is unfolding before our eyes in northwest Syria.

Statement by Refugees International’s Senior Advocate for the Middle East Sahar Atrache on the UN Security Council’s decision to halt cross-border aid into northeast Syria from Iraq.

Russia and China’s decision to veto the renewal of UN Security Council resolution 2449 (also known as resolution 2165), which allows the delivery of cross-border humanitarian aid into Syria, is indefensible.