(Telegraph-UK) Ruth Sherlock - Tens of thousands of Syriac Christians - members of the oldest Christian community in the world - have fled their ancestral provinces of Deir al-Zour and Hasakah in northeastern Syria. Residents estimate that at least a third of Christians in northeastern Syria have fled. Christians make up approximately 10% of Syria's population.
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