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Jordan sends aid convoy to southern Syria

The Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization sent an aid convoy to Syria on Sunday.

The JHCO, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs and the Jordan Armed Forces, sent 16 trucks loaded with prefabricated homes, as well as medical supplies and medicines.

Hussein Shibli, secretary-general of the JHCO, said the charity partnered with the Helping Hand Foundation, MedGlobal, and Hikma Pharmaceuticals.

The Syrian Crescent will distribute the aid in the southern Suwayda governorate and Daraa.

The JHCO collaborated with Qatar in September to deliver aid in Suwayda.

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Mexico unveils security operation in violent Michoacan state after brazen assassination of mayor

As typhoons wreak havoc in Southeast Asia, scientists say rising temperatures are to blame

Russia’s Kaliningrad puts on brave face as isolation bites

Typhoon Fung-wong leaves wide swath of destruction, displaces 1.4 million people in northern Philippines