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At least 28 people, including women and children, have reportedly been killed in air strikes that hit a camp for internally displaced persons in Syria's Idlib province near the Turkish border. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Images show people standing amidst the rubble of a house that was destroyed by a Russian air strike that killed seven people, four of them children, in the Jisr al-Shughur countryside of northern Syria. Russia, which did not comment immediately on the raid, is a main backer of President Bashar al-Assad's regime. With Russian and Iranian support, Damascus clawed back much of the ground lost in the early stages of Syria's conflict, which erupted in 2011 when the government brutally repressed pro-democracy protests. The last pocket of armed opposition to the regime includes large swathes of Idlib province and parts of the neighbouring Aleppo, Hama and Latakia provinces. IMAGES
Vucjak (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Dec. 4 (EFE / EPA).- Hundreds of refugees at a camp in northwestern Bosnia remained on hunger strike Wednesday for a second consecutive day to protest conditions at the makeshift facility, which is without electricity or running water and offers no protection from winter weather.Red Cross vehicles laden with food for the refugees returned to the nearby city of Bihac with their cargo untouched, as the occupants of the Vucjak camp refused to collect their rations.The camp, built on a former landfill and surrounded by minefields dating from the 1992-1995 war, has long been the target of criticism from aid groups and a representative of the Council of Europe called Tuesday for its immediate closure. (Camera: FEHIM DEMIR).FOOTAGE SHOWING B-ROLLS OF THE VUCJAK REFUGEE CAMP OUTSIDE BIHAC, NORTHWESTERN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, IN WINTER.
Video uploaded to a social media website purports to show aftermath of an attack on a hospital in the Syrian town of Meles. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).