LONDON (Reuters) - Donor nations have pledged to give more than $10 billion by 2020 to meet Syrian needs. The pledges came during a conference in London on Thursday, described by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon as the single biggest humanitarian fundraising event ever.
The donor conference took place against a backdrop of intense fighting within Syria, where five years of civil war have killed some 250,000 people and driven millions from their homes, and after fledgling peace talks were suspended.
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