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“We’ve been buried alive:” Inside Eastern Ghouta’s underground bunkers. Since aerial assaults intensified in this suburb of Damascus on Feb. 18, many residents have moved into basements or other underground shelters, in order to escape the bombardment, which has killed more than 1,700 civilians and injured over 5,000.

David Miliband, former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, has been chosen by the Board of Directors to succeed George Rupp this September as President and CEO.

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Worried about the surge in fighting in their Dara’a, Syria neighbourhood, 30-year-old Anwar and her family of six fled to Jordan in 2013. They had no means of earning money since it was nearly impossible for Syrian refugees to receive a work permit – a daily reality for many Syrian refugees living on the fringe.

Over a million Iraqis living in Mosul have had their lives turned upside down since ISIS took control of the city in June 2014. Another 200,000 have fled their homes in the last four months as the battle to retake Mosul wages on. It is predicted that the fighting will continue well into 2017, but even when the last of ISIS is driven from the city, the crisis will be far from over. 

Nearly 80 million people are uprooted by conflict and crisis worldwide and are especially vulnerable during the global coronavirus pandemic. Read some of our most popular articles of 2020 to revisit the biggest stories related to COVID-19 and other humanitarian crises last year.

One year ago, a massive explosion in the port of Beirut killed more than 200 people, displaced hundreds of thousands and worsened an economy already in freefall. Elias El Beam describes how Lebanon has struggled to recover.

Education in exile — meet the Syrian girls going back to school in Lebanon.