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Startling Drone Footage Shows Scale Of Destruction In Homs, Syria

Startling Drone Footage Shows Scale Of Destruction In Homs, Syria

Startling footage of the war-ravaged Syrian city of Homs shows the scale of destruction wrought upon it after years of conflict.

RT correspondent Murad Gazdiev and his crew flew a drone through Hom's abandoned streets and over its buildings, revealing haunting aerial views of a lifeless city of rubble.

Syria’s third largest city, Homs was once a thriving industrial centre.

In 2011 it become known as the “capital of the revolution” against the Assad regime and consequently the scene of some of the heaviest battles of the Syrian civil war.

Under a UN-negotiated deal, the last remaining anti-government forces left Homs in December.

The footage comes a month after similar drone-captured scenes were taken by the RT network over Jobar on the outskirts of Damascus.

More than 4.5 million people have fled Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011.

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