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Half a million wounded in Syria's war: Red Cross

Half a million people across war-hit Syria have been wounded, many of them lacking access to basic healthcare and treatment, the International Committee for the Red Cross said on Sunday. "At least half a million people have been wounded across the country and millions remain displaced and...

New air strikes on Syria's Aleppo 'kill dozens': NGO

 Dozens of people were killed in an eighth day of air strikes on Aleppo in Syria on Sunday, a watchdog said, as a bombing in Homs killed five schoolchildren. "Dozens of people were killed or wounded" in attacks that saw loyalist warplanes drop so-called barrel bombs near...

Repatriation of British doctor's body begins

The body of a British doctor who died earlier this week in a Syrian prison, only days before he was expected to be freed after 13 months of detention, has arrived in Beirut en route to the United Kingdom. A Red Cross ambulance carried the coffin of Abbas Khan, a 32-year-old...