Under the grey skies of Domiz camp, the oldest and largest of Iraq’s refugee camps home to more than 31,000 Syrians, the mood was celebratory.

Head south from Scorpion Junction (Al Aqrab) on the road from Erbil and you’ll come across the Athbah trauma field hospital, just 15km from the frontlines of west Mosul that was established to treat casualties from the city.

The lives of those living in Kherson oblast, Ukraine, have been upended on the morning of 06 June 2023 by the Kakhovka Dam blast. Humanitarians are working around the clock to support them.

With 11.3 million people affected and 673,042 people displaced, there is no understating the severity of damage caused by Typhoon Haiyan (known locally as Yolanda).