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Monday, July 2, 2018
More than 270,000 displaced by southern Syria fighting
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA regime offensive in southern Syria has forced more than 270,000 people from their homes, the United Nations says.
“We were expecting the number of displaced in southern Syria to reach 200,000, but it has already exceeded 270,000 people in record time,” says Mohammad Hawari, the spokesman for UN refugee agency UNHCR in Amman.
Nearly two weeks of ferocious airstrikes and barrel bombing have seen regime forces retake swaths of rebel-held territory in the southern province of Daraa.
— AFP
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