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New Syrian Institution Helps US Deliver Humanitarian Aid

A senior US aid official tasked with coordinating humanitarian assistance to Syria says he is “all for” prolonging the Syria war if it leads to a “democratic Syria.”  
Syrian students sits in a UNICEF school during a visit by European Union Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva and Italy's Foreign Minister Emma Bonino at the Al Zaatri refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria June 25, 2013. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: EDUCATION CONFLICT SOCIETY) - RTX1106A
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As the Syrian civil war grinds on and the Syrian opposition struggles to speak with a unified voice, a new institution has developed to help international donors deliver urgently needed humanitarian assistance to areas outside Syrian government control.

Mark Ward, a senior adviser to the State Department on aid to Syria, told Al-Monitor in an interview Thursday [June 27], that the so-called Assistance Coordination Unit (ACU), has become a crucial partner in assessing Syrian needs and determining where supplies such as food and medicine should go.

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