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| U.S. pledges extra $140 mln to Lebanon for Syrian refugees |
| 2017-07-27 |
| [AlAhram] The United States will give Leb an extra $140 million to help Syrian refugees and the communities hosting them, the State Department said during a U.S. state visit by Leb's Prime Minister. Leb is hosting at least 1.5 million Syrian refugees who have fled the more than six-year conflict there and who now make up about a quarter of the country's population. The latest grant means the United States has given Leb more than $1.5 billion in humanitarian assistance since the start of the conflict in 2012, the State Department said. In its 2017-2010 Crisis Response Plan, the Lebanese government said it needed $2.8 billion to address the challenges of hosting refugees. The U.S. money will be used for food, shelter and medical assistance for Syrian refugees and Lebanese host communities. It will also support water and wastewater infrastructure projects, the State Department said in a statement. U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... said this week after meeting Prime Minister Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. that the United States will continue to support the Lebanese army in its fight to stop Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... and other murderous Moslem groups gaining a foothold inside the country. "We encourage other donors to join us in providing additional humanitarian assistance for those affected by the crisis in Syria, including fulfilling not yet funded previously made pledges," the State Department said. |
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