Heartache.

ISTANBUL (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has announced nearly $135 million in humanitarian aid to help feed civilians affected by Syria’s war.

Speaking in Istanbul on Saturday, Biden said the money will raise the amount of aid the U.S. has provided to more than $3 billion since Syria’s crisis began.

The new funding will help feed vulnerable people inside Syria; Syrian refugees in Turkey; and Syrian refugees in other neighboring countries.

Turkey is now hosting an estimated 1.6 million refugees from Syria.

More than 190,000 Syrians from Kobani, a Syrian town near the border, flee to Turkey in recent weeks.

About 300 people have protested U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Turkey, chanting: “Biden get out. This country is ours.”