Syria: Cold Wave – Dec 2025

On 31 December 2025, heavy snowstorms hit IDP sites and camps across the north of the country that lasted for several days, blocking roads within and to the camps and disrupting access affecting around 158,000 IDPs across Aleppo, Idleb and Al-Hasakeh governorates. On 1 and 2 January, according to the CCCM Sector, two infants, a two-day-old girl and three months old boy, passed away due to the extreme cold weather in Aqadimi IDP site in Salqin sub-district and in Tajmuaa Alez IDP site in Dana sub-district, respectively in northern Idleb countryside. The CCCM sector reported that 99 incidents, mainly snowstorms and floods, took place in 86 IDP sites. 68 per cent of the affected sites are distributed across Armanaz, Badama, Dana, Darkosh, Harim, Janudiyeh, Maaret Tamsrin, Qourqeena and Salqin sub-districts in northern Idleb countryside and 32 per cent of the IDP camps and sites are located across Afrin, A’zaz and Jebel Saman sub-districts in northern and western Aleppo countrysides. The affected sites in Aleppo and Idleb are home to more than 118,000 IDPs, around 21,900 households who were affected by the weather conditions. (OCHA, 6 Jan 2026)