As the offensive in northeast Syria continues, the IRC is deeply concerned about the lives and livelihoods of civilians. Here’s what you need to know.

Syria has all but collapsed as the country’s civil war enters its seventh year.  On March 13, the International Rescue Committee released a new survey—the first of its kind—on Syrian children and learning. 

The world is celebrating the extraordinary rescue of the Wild Boars football team from a flooded cave network in the Mai Sai district of Thailand, but the incident has also shined a spotlight on a humanitarian crisis on the Thailand-Myanmar border that has been overlooked since the start of military rule in Myanmar in the 1960s. Three of the boys, as well as their coach, 25-year-old Ekkapol Chantawong, belong to Thailand’s stateless population. “Coach Ek” and these boys have escaped from the treacherous caves, but remain trapped, as they have been all their lives, in a state of legal limbo.