| #1 Thursday, August 5, 2021. President Biden announced nearly $100 million in new humanitarian assistance for Lebanon through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. State Department will help people affected by the COVID -19 pandemic... It will also support Syrian refugees ...this support brings total U.S. humanitarian assistance in Lebanon to $372 million in FY 2021; in response to COVID-19, the humanitarian impacts of the August 2020 explosions at the Port of Beirut, and Syrian refugee crisis. As such, the USA is the largest donor in Lebanon. |