More than 160,000 displaced as violence in southern Syria continues
BEIRUT_More than 160,000 people have fled their homes in a Syrian government assault in the country's southwest, the United Nations said, as negotiations for rebel capitulation in the region and to avoid clashes that could embroil Jordan and Israel broke down Saturday.
Calling on the same playbook it used to subdue other rebel enclaves, the Syrian government and its Russian backers have made quick gains in the southwestern province of Deraa.
The strategic region, one of the last remaining bastions of rebel control, borders Jordan and links to the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
With the campaign in its 11th day, government troops, backed by Russian and Syrian airstrikes and artillery clearing their path, easily captured a
