Syria

Years of violent conflict have devastated lives and infrastructure, leaving humanitarian needs critically high

Insecurity Insight monitors sentiment towards the aid sector on social media and documents conflict events affecting aid operations, education, food and water systems, health care and protection as well as incidents of explosive weapons use in Syria.

Our data can be downloaded on the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) and corresponding reports can be accessed below.

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2025 SHCC Chapter (EN)

2025 SHCC Chapter (AR)

Datasets on HDX

Social Media Monitoring

Insecurity Insight provides regular social media sentiment analysis using public social media data with a specific focus on sentiment disinformation and misinformation trends concerning the aid sector. To support humanitarian work in Syria in the aftermath of the fall of the Assad regime, Insecurity Insight is conducting ongoing social media monitoring to understand perceptions and key concerns around the aid response during a period of transition.

Insecurity Insight monitored social media to support the communications and security risk-management strategies of aid providers on the ground with the aim to support aid agencies to to reduce the risk of harmful online material adversely impacting programme effectiveness and security.

SMM Reports

Health Care

Insecurity Insight monitors attacks on health care in Syria, and based on its data, in the Syria, (in Arabic and English) chapter of the 2025 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) report Care in the Crosshairs identified 74 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Syria in 2025. 22 health workers were killed, 21 arrested and ten kidnapped. Health worker arrests and kidnappings increased, killings persisted, and damage to or the destruction of health facilities continued, but at lower levels than previous years during the civil war. The majority of incidents affected health care providers working for national health structures.

Published every two weeks, Insecurity Insight’s Attacks on Health Care New Brief tracks global threats and violence as well as protests and other events affecting the delivery of and access to health care. Explore our interactive map to see where incidents happened.

Health Analysis Reports

SHCC Chapters (AR)

Conflict and Hunger

Insecurity Insight monitors conflict events affecting food insecurity in Syria as part of its Conflict and Hunger project. Our latest report documents 1,732 incidents recorded between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2022. They include wide ranging threats to farmers posed by detonations of explosive remnants of war on agricultural and farmland, airstrikes on markets, looting of food and shootings of farmers. The data is available for download on the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).

Food Insecurity Infographics

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