"In Syria we have very continuous projects as you know, including, next year, we are planning to enhance in projects for the food security, for the health projects, for supporting the IDPs [ internally displaced persons], and we hope to both support the refugees outside Syria and also to help the IDPs inside Syria," al-Rabeeah said on Tuesday.

The agency’s work in Syria is being accomplished through collaboration with the United Nations partners and Syrian regional and international non-governmental organizations, al-Rabeeah added.

Syria has been in a state of civil war for eight years, with the government forces fighting against numerous opposition groups as well as militant and terrorist organizations. The conflict in the country produced over five million refugees and over six million internally displaced people. Over 13 million Syrians, nearly half of them children, require humanitarian assistance.

Russia, Turkey and Iran are the guarantors of the ceasefire in the conflict-ravaged Syria. Russia carries out humanitarian operations across the country on a regular basis and helps Damascus in providing safe passage for the return of Syrian refugees.