KUWAIT CITY: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned on Wednesday that nearly half of Syria's population needs urgent humanitarian help, as aid groups urged access for relief delivery to civilians trapped by the fighting.

Ban's warning came in an address to a one-day donors' conference in Kuwait City aimed at raising $6.5 billion in aid for war-affected Syrians.

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