Dozens of children have been killed since fighting began in the north-western Syrian town of Afrin, where people are under bombardment, hospitals have been shut down and water supplies cut off, the United Nations has reported.
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Syria: Children, families killed by airstrikes, shelling in Afrin – UN
- 16 March 2018

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