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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Robert Badendieck and Ghaith Alsayed

Trump's foreign aid freeze forces health clinics in a vulnerable region of Syria to close

Syria Aid Cuts - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

In the town of Sarmada in northern Syria, Dr. Mohammad Fares unlocked a clinic that once bustled with patients. Now it's empty, and shelves of medicine reduced to a few boxes of bandages and expired drugs.

This is what it looks like after the Trump administration halted U.S. foreign assistance last month. The U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, issued stop-work orders during a 90-day review for what the administration has alleged is wasteful spending.

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