During relative calm, growing humanitarian suffering in Syria, a ‘tragic irony’

Violent conflict, terrorism and human rights abuses continue in Syria as its besieged population suffers economic destitution, displacement, detention and abduction, the UN’s Special Envoy for the country told the Security Council on Wednesday.

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