Appeals for aid to Syria were falling short even before this month. Now, aid groups are trying to marshal more pledges while attention is still on the quakes, but the road to recovery will be long.
are now homeless in government-controlled Aleppo, where the distribution of international aid is controlled by the regime of Bashar Assad.
"Many families have been separated, with hundreds of children now orphaned or unable to be reunited with their parents," the U.N. has said. Abu Lebda also described seeing a Syrian man abruptly getting off a bus after insisting he'd heard his two children calling for him from under the rubble of his home.
So dire is the situation that the U.S. has softened its sanctions against Syria for three months to ensure that earthquake relief efforts are not hampered by those restrictions. Despite preexisting exemptions on humanitarian assistance, fear of running afoul of sanctions might have affected the delivery of much-needed aid.
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