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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
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Asharq Al-Awsat

Surge in Starving Children in War-torn Syria

A Syrian refugee holds her kids as she arrives to register at an office of the UNHCR at the newly-opened Mrigeb al-Fuhud refugee camp ,20 km east of the city of Zarqa on April 10, 2013. (Photo by KHALIL MAZRAAWI / AFP)

The number of malnourished children starving in northeastern Syria, an area ravaged by more than a decade of conflict, has risen by 150 percent, aid group Save the Children said Thursday.

"Every day we have to deal with more malnourished children than the day before," the aid agency said, in an urgent appeal to donors.

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