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More than 270,000 displaced by southern Syria fighting: UN
AMMAN, July 2, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A regime offensive in southern Syria has
forced more than 270,000 people from their homes, the United Nations said
Monday.
“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,” said
Mohammad Hawari, the spokesman for UN refugee agency UNHCR in Amman.
Nearly two weeks of ferocious air strikes and barrel bombing have seen
regime forces retake swathes of rebel-held territory in the southern province
of Daraa.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 1824 hrs