The humanitarian situation in northwest Syria is at a breaking point. The latest escalation of violence in Idlib province has uprooted more than 235,000 people from their homes, including more than 60,000 children.

In the early morning of 6 February, the most severe earthquake Türkiye had experienced in almost 100 years also sent shockwaves across northern Syria and parts of Lebanon.

As a humanitarian friend of The Walk, the International Rescue Committee is proud to welcome Little Amal - a 3.5 metre-tall puppet of a young refugee girl who represents all displaced children - to Brussels.

Nearly a quarter of IRC staff members have been forced to flee their homes as a result of airstrikes and bombings in northwest Syria. This IRC staffer, a native of Syria, shares his heartbreaking story, and why, despite all, he stays to help save lives.

When Salem, 39, and his family of six became sick with cholera, they didn’t know what had hit them. As a fisherman by trade, he thought the fish he had brought home might have caused them to fall ill.

Lina used to battle with being confident, struggling to make friends and feeling like a stranger in her family. Now she’s on the path towards learning self-assurance.

8-year-old Reem explains how mindfulness techniques helped relieve her anxiety, after growing up with the trauma of the war in Syria.

Since 2011 the ongoing war in Syria, which was worsened by the earthquake near the border between Türkiye in February 2023, has displaced around 1.5 million Syrians into Lebanon. Protection intervention is still of vital importance for countless affected families - and especially for adolescent girls.