Sunday 11 February 2018

France presses Russia over Syria as more die in besieged rebel area

France presses Russia over Syria as more die in besieged rebel areaBy Dahlia Nehme and Matthias Blamont BEIRUT/PARIS (Reuters) - France urged Russia to make Syria's government ease a dire humanitarian crisis in two rebel-held areas as more air strikes pounded them on Friday, adding to the death toll from one of the deadliest weeks of the war. President Bashar al-Assad's army, which has seized a clear advantage in the war with Russian and Iranian help, is bombarding two of the last key rebel areas of Syria - Eastern Ghouta near Damascus and Idlib in the northwest near the Turkish border.




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