Syrian Donor Conference Aims for Record Target

Seventy world leaders are due Thursday in London for the fourth Syria donors’ conference.  The United Nations wants $9 billion to help fund humanitarian relief and projects to help refugees.     The toll on civilians grows heavier by the month as Syria’s civil war enters its sixth year.   The United Nations estimates more than a quarter million people have been killed.  Four and a half million Syrians have fled the country, and a further 6.6 million are...

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