Gunman abducted seven International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent staff on Sunday in Idlib province, one of the main theatres of Syria's brutal war, the ICRC said.

It came as two suicide car bombings blasted Damascus, and as the ICRC and Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) evacuated thousands of people from a suburb of the capital that the army has besieged for months.

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