UN High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih has called on the international community to pay attention to developments in Syria, as battles continue in the north-east of the country.
Speaking to The National at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Mr Salih said there were positive trends of refugees returning to Syria, but that required continued security.
He spoke of the Syrian civil war, which followed the 2011 uprising against former president Bashar Al Assad’s regime, saying the country “has been a terrible, terrible tragedy ... this conflict should have been contained early on and the world should not have let it go on or allowed it to continue for as long as it endured”.
He also spoke of the “millions of people displaced and tragedies that we have witnessed” in the confli
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