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The State of Kuwait has donated $53 million to UNICEF to help Syrian children inside Syria and refugees in neighbouring countries, and $15 million to UNRWA to assist Palestinian...
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The Syrian government has revealed that its 2014 budget amounts to 1.39 trillion Syrian pounds (around $9.8 billion). On paper this is the largest budget in the government's history,...
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Head of the interim Lebanese government Najib Mikati called on Wednesday for the international community to setup safe havens for displaced Syrians inside their own country in order to...
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The Jordanian Minister of Planning and International Cooperation, Ibrahim Saif, said on Wednesday that his country needs about $3 billion to cover the costs of hosting Syrian refugees this...
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The Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, announced on Wednesday that his country is pledging $500 million in aid to help fund the UN's humanitarian efforts for millions...
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The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, called on Wednesday for the siege on the Yarmouk Refugee Camp in Syria to be lifted. It insisted that the militias in and...
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Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs His Excellency Khalid bin Mohamed Al-Attiyah met with Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, on the sidelines of the second international donors'...
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The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) spokesperson, Chris Gunness, has said that the children in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria are being forced to...
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Britain's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, William Hague, has promised to bring those responsible for "unbearable crimes" in Syria to justice. He accused the Syrian regime...
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Turkish authorities have decided to allocate homes for homeless Syrian refugees before the start of the winter season. The Director General of Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, Dr...
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Amnesty International (AI) has denounced the reaction of the European Union (EU) to the growing Syrian refugee crisis. So far, EU member states have only opened their doors to...
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January 24, 2014
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Samira Shackle
On 16 April, it emerged that the US was sending 200 troops to Jordan, to establish a small headquarters near the border with Syria. While these troops will initially...
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January 24, 2014
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Sophie Cousins
Today, they said, was a "quiet day". There was a child with shrapnel wedged in her neck, a man in the ICU with amputated limbs and an FSA fighter...
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January 24, 2014
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Abdel Bari Atwan
In refugee camps across Jordan and Turkey Syrian children are freezing to death and their peers in the Gaza Strip are drowning while the Arab countries, most notably the...