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In former Syria rebel stronghold, nothing was spared

Once the throbbing heart of the uprising against Bashar al-Assad's regime, Maaret al-Numan is an eerie ghost town where few buildings have been spared by nine years of war. Following a major ground offensive, the Syrian army captured the town in the northwestern province of Idlib on...

U.S. envoy: 700,000 displaced in northwest Syria

 Two hundred air strikes by Syrian government and Russian warplanes have hit Syria’s Idlib region in the last three days, the U.S. special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey said on Thursday. Jeffrey told a press briefing that some 700,000 displaced people in northwest Syria were...

UN halts Tripoli refugee centre operations over safety fears

The United Nations said Thursday it was suspending its operations at a refugee reception centre in Tripoli over safety fears as the conflict in the war-ravaged country worsens. The UN refugee agency's chief of mission in Libya, Jean-Paul Cavalieri said the decision had been taken after the...