UN Asks for $6.5 Billion to Help Syrians

The United Nations is asking for $6.5 billion in aid to help the millions of Syrians forced from their homes by more than two and a half years of fighting.   U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said $2.3 billion of that amount is needed for those displaced in Syria.  The rest is necessary to help Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and elsewhere in the region. "This is the largest amount we have ever had to request at the start of the year,'' she told a news...

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