GENEVA (Reuters) - Families in Syria are increasingly resorting to begging for food to cope with shortages and high prices wrought by the civil war, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
The conflict between President Bashar al-Assad and rebels trying to overthrow him has killed 93,000 people, uprooted millions of people, destroyed livelihoods and wrecked property, businesses and infrastructure worth tens of billions of dollars.
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