Close to a million people displaced inside Syria in just four months
Geneva — More than 920,000 people were displaced inside Syria during the first four months of 2018, the highest level in the seven-year conflict, the UN said Monday. "We are seeing a massive displacement inside Syria … From January to April, there were over 920,000 newly displaced people," Panos Moumtzis, the UN regional humanitarian co-ordinator for Syria, told reporters in Geneva. "This was the highest displacement in that short period of time we have seen since the conflict started," he said. It brings the number of people internally displaced in the war-ravaged country to 6.2-million, while there are still about 5.6-million Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries, according to UN figures. Moumtzis said most of the newly displaced had been forced on the move by escalations in fighting in the former rebel bastion of Eastern Ghouta and within the northwestern province of Idlib, which is almost entirely controlled by various jihadist and hardline rebels. His comments came after se...
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