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December 29, 2017

Syria: A Dozen Critically Ill Patients Evacuated from Eastern Ghouta
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In Syria, about a dozen critically ill patients have been evacuated from
Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus. Eastern Ghouta has been besieged
by Syrian government forces since 2013. The majority of the critically
ill patients evacuated this week are children. There are currently about
400,000 civilians in Eastern Ghouta, where supplies of medicine, food
and water are dwindling. Meanwhile, in more news on Syria, Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad
as a terrorist mass murderer and said there's no place for him in a
post-conflict Syria. Erdogan's comments Wednesday represent a shift away
from the softer stance Turkey has taken toward Assad in recent years.


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