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Past satellite images of the site, some 75 kilometres (45 miles) northeast of the Syrian city of Aleppo, showed hundreds of tanker trucks gathered in the area.
The plans would drastically slash aid to war-torn and poverty-stricken countries in the Middle East and Africa
The aid package will support social protection, healthcare, and education for Syrian refugees in host countries.
Britain pledged £87 million for Yemen at an international donors' conference this week, about half the amount it offered last year.
Missile strikes on makeshift oil refineries in northern Syria killed four people and injured more than 20 others, a war monitor said.
Canada has called on the UN to hold the Assad regime accountable for crimes against its own people after a similar request by the Netherlands.
The children of alleged Islamic State members were handed back to their mothers from Iraq's Yazidi minority.
The Arab League accused Ankara of interfering in the internal affairs of Arab countries.
A pioneering Syrian TV station has celebrated its third anniversary with a new range of programmes geared to an audience which has experienced great change due to revolution and conflict.
In her first Security Council meeting, Linda Thomas, Washington's new UN envoy, said Russia was blocking "all efforts to pursue accountability" against the Assad regime over its chemical weapons use.
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