UAE pledges USD 50 million to reconstruct areas East of Syria
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Damascus (Syria News) The international coalition command announced, on Sunday, that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had pledged 50 million US dollars for the reconstruction of East of Syria.
Brett H. McGurk, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS in Syria and Iraq, said that the Emirati fund is a part of the US plan to gather 300 million US dollars to reconstruct the areas recaptured from the Islamic State, northeast of Syria.
Furthermore, Saudi Arabia announced, yesterday, providing 100 million US dollars for the reconstruction of the areas located east of Syria, especially Raqqa.
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