The humanitarian crisis in Syria is reaching new peaks as hundreds of thousands of people flee the escalating fighting in Eastern Ghouta and Afrin, the latest flashpoints in the long-running conflict, United Nations relief agencies said Tuesday.
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Displacement surges as twin military offensives drive thousands from Afrin and east Ghouta – UN
- 20 March 2018

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