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Thursday, March 15, 2018
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Thursday, March 15, 2018
More than 12,000 Syrians flee opposition-held eastern Ghouta
More than 12,000 people poured out of Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, a monitor says, calling it the “largest displacement” since government troops launched their assault on the rebel enclave.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says residents were fleeing battlefront towns in a southern pocket of Eastern Ghouta after regime forces opened up a corridor into loyalist territory.
The mass exit comes as Syrians marked seven years since the popular uprising that sparked their country’s vicious civil war — and hours after Syrian government forces blanketed the town with airstrikes and rocket fire.
— Agencies
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