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As UN prepares for mammoth Syria aid conference, Assad regime keeps relief from the suffering, FoxNews.com
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"As the United Nations prepares to convene a mammoth humanitarian aid conference next week in aid of Syrian refugees, U.S. officials say the Assad regime is still refusing to allow aid workers and relief supplies through to many of the suffering -- even as it continues to rain death down upon its civilian population...Despite that, the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) hopes that rich nations will pledge some $6.5 billion for Syrian relief at the U.N. meeting, scheduled to take place in Kuwait on January 15 -- the largest appeal for a single humanitarian crisis in history. The target is more than four times what the U.N. asked for in a similar appeal for Syria in January 2013 -- and that appeal was only 70 percent funded...In 2013, the U.S. gave more than $556 million to Syria's emergency appeal, or roughly 40 percent of the $1.4 billion total. When its previous year's giving is added, the U.S. total is about $1.35 billion -- or nearly as much as the U.N. gleaned from everyone in 2013."