The deputy executive director of the U.N. World Food Program has been on whirlwind visits to hotspots in the Middle East and Sudan to assess dire humanitarian situations and escalating demands for food from millions of people trapped or fleeing conflicts.

World Food Programme Chief Operating Officer, Carl Skau, discusses his recent trip to Syria and states there is a triple crisis in the country. Skau talks about Syrians facing food insecurities and the World Food Programme doing what it can to help those in need.

The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) called on Thursday for $250 million in funding for food assistance to Syria over the next six months, after rebels seized power last week.

Britain on Sunday announced a 50 million pounds ($63 million) aid package to help vulnerable Syrians after rebels last week overthrew President Bashar al-Assad.

The World Food Programme WFP is calling for urgent funds to scale up operations in a bid to reach 28 million displaced and food-insecure people acr

Speaking on CBS' "Face the Nation," McCain said that crises around the globe, many of them in war zones, have depleted the coffers of her organization at a time of rampant malnutrition and starvation. She specified war-torn Syria first and foremost as a crisis spot.

The pseudo-left groups backed a war in which nearly 500,000 people lost their lives, nearly half of all the conflict-related deaths worldwide over the same period.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Ukraine is ready to help Syria prevent a food crisis, in particular through the Grain from Ukraine humanitarian programme. Source: an address by Zelenskyy Quote: "Today,

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that Ukraine is coordinating food aid to Syria with its partners and the Syrian side. Source: President's address Quote: "Today, I discussed with our government officials - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food - the issue of food assistance under the Grain from Ukraine programme,

G7 leaders will meet virtually Friday to discuss the momentous changes underway in Syria, where the interim government has vowed to institute the "rule of law" after years of abuses

(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, meets with Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme ... he said. Syria is facing the fallout ...

At least 21 Palestinians have been killed and 61 others injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours