Syria's worst drought in decades pushes millions to the brink | NYGazet

The drought has slashed wheat harvests by 40% in a country where nearly 90% of the population already lives in poverty.

11 hours ago Samantha GranvilleBeirut The wheat fields outside Seqalbia, near the Syrian city of Hama, should be golden and heavy with grain. Instead, Maher Haddad's 40 dunums (10 acres) are dry and empty, barely yielding a third of their usual harve... [5229 chars]