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Russian-led offensive displaces 500,000 in two months

A Russian-led Syrian regime offensive against the country's last rebel enclave has displaced more than half a million people in two months, the United Nations said Tuesday. "Since 1 December, some 520,000 people have been displaced from their homes, the vast majority - 80 percent - of...

151,000 civilians flee attacks in Idlib in week

The ongoing attacks by Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and its allies forced some 151,000 civilians to flee their homes in Idlib, a de-escalation zone in northwestern Syria, over the last week, according to sources on the ground. Mohammad Hallaj, director of Syria's Response Coordination...

Greek island police fire tear gas at protesting migrants

Police on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday fired tear gas at hundreds of migrants protesting against tougher new asylum rules, officials said. Brandishing makeshift signs with the word "freedom", some 2,000 men and women walked out of the overpopulated camp of Moria to demonstrate....

Iraq protest camps splinter over cleric's backing of new PM

Protests camps in Iraq's capital and the south began to fracture on Monday, activists and AFP reporters said, split over whether to back prime minister-designate Mohammad Allawi. Allawi's nomination on February 1 has so far failed to quell the months-long rallies sweeping Baghdad and the...