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With Syria’s war well into its third year, the number of Syrian children forced to flee their homeland as refugees has now reached one million.

Demonstrators in Cairo, Egypt, stand amid makeshift barriers on 27 July 2013.

France says the international community must respond with force if opposition allegations that Syrian forces used chemical weapons in an attack near Damascus prove true.

The United Nations’ Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated US$10 million through its underfunded emergencies window for humanitarian assistance to more than 1 million people who remain displaced in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa(KP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan due to insecurity since 2008.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

Egypt's interim prime minister says any move by the United States to cut military aid to the country would be a "very bad sign."

A man injured during clashes in Cairo, Egypt, on 27 July 2013 being assisted

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The Obama administration is facing questions about whether it is able to influence Egypt’s military government to end its bloody crackdown on the opposition. Officials say discussions on the matter are ongoing.

The bodies of 24 Egyptian policemen killed by suspected Islamist gunmen in the Sinai desert were given a hero's welcome night in Cairo, as the government continued its information campaign against opponents of the July 3 military takeover.

As thousands of Syrians flood into Iraq fleeing from the ongoing violence in Syria, UNICEF and partners are rushing to meet their urgent needs.