The US ends lifesaving food aid for millions. The World Food Program calls it a 'death sentence'

The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them struggling with conflict. The World Food Program appealed to the U.S. to roll back the new cuts in a social media post Monday. According to officials and documents obtained by The Associated Press, the unexpected round of contract cancellations has targeted some of the last remaining humanitarian programs run by the U.S. Agency for International Development. In Syria, some $230 million in contracts was terminated. A U.N. official said all U.S. aid to WFP food programs across Yemen has ended. The State Department hasn't commented.