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NW Syria violence displaces 500,000 in two months
A Russian-backed Syrian government offensive against the country's last rebel enclave has displaced more than half
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- A Russian-backed Syrian government offensive against the country's last rebel enclave has displaced more than half a million people in two months.
BEIRUT: A Russian-backed Syrian government 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 them women and children," UN spokesman David Swanson said.
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