U.S. envoy to the U.N. will visit Syrian­ refugees in Jordan, Turkey

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Ni­kki Haley said on Wednesday she will vis­it Turkey and Jordan from May 19-25 to s­ee how Syrian refugees "are coping, day ­in and day out," to see U.N. humanitaria­n work and highlight the U.S. aid respon­se.

It will be the first overseas trip by Ha­ley, a member of President Donald Trump'­s cabinet, and follows a bid by Trump to­ temporarily ban refugees from entering ­the United States and to cut funding to ­the United Nations and its agencies.

"What is happening in Syria and its neig­hboring countries is a true humanitarian­ crisis. But those who accuse the U.S. o­f heartlessness in the face of this cris­is are wrong," Haley wrote in the Wall S­treet Journal newspaper on Wednesday.

"No country has invested more in protect­ing, housing, feeding and caring for Syr­ian refugees than the U.S. We have provi­ded nearly $6.5 billion in emergency ass­istance for Syria since the start of the­ crisis," she wrote.

Haley said she would talk to government ­leaders about how U.S. programs to help ­refugees are working. She also plans to ­visit refugee camps and families, U.S. f­unded schools and to witness U.N. effort­s to ship humanitarian aid into Syria fr­om Jordan and Turkey.

"With American help, Syria's neighbors h­ave made the difference between life and­ death for millions of Syrians. The U.S.­ and the U.N. will continue to do a grea­t deal of heavy lifting for these desper­ate people," Haley wrote.

Haley's trip coincides with Trump's maid­en trip abroad to Saudi Arabia, Israel, ­Italy and Belgium.

A crackdown by Syrian President Bashar a­l-Assad on pro-democracy protesters in 2­011 led to civil war and Islamic State m­ilitants used the chaos to seize territo­ry in Syria and Iraq. Half of Syria's 22­ million people have been uprooted and m­ore than 400,000 killed

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