The United States provide $195 million more in food and humanitarian aid to Syria to mark the end of Ramadan, Barack Obama said this week.
Obama’s statement marking Eid al-Fitr, noted that the latest addition of humanitarian aid, would bring the total amount of aid allocated to Syria since the start of the conflict to $1 billion.
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