Billions pledged for Syria as tens of thousands flee bombardments
[AlAhram] Donor nations pledged on Thursday to give $11 billion in aid to Syrians by 2020 as world leaders tried to tackle the world's worst humanitarian crisis, while The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
reported a new exodus of tens of thousands fleeing air strikes.
With Syria's five-year-old civil war raging and another attempt at peace negotiations called off in Geneva after just a few days, a donor conference in London sought to address the needs of some 6 million people displaced within Syria and more than 4 million refugees in other countries.
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