Living in War-Torn Syria
For more than three years now, Syrians have endured the loss and hardship caused by a protracted civil war. At the moment, Syrian government forces are fighting several rebel groups spread throughout the country, as well as ISIS, the militant group attempting to form a new state carved out of Syria and Iraq. The smaller rebel groups are fighting each other, and just about everyone in the region is fighting ISIS, assisted by airstrikes carried out by a U.S.-led coalition. Pockets of Damascus are stable enough for residents to carry on normal lives, while some distant rural villages have been reduced to rubble. Basic necessities are rare in contested areas, and refugee camps in neighboring countries are still growing. Battles and attacks continue across Syria among the many parties, with no clear end in sight—those caught in the crossfire suffering most. Gathered here are images of the ongoing Syrian conflict from just the past month. [34 photos]
ISIS militants stand next to an explosion from an airstrike on Tilsehir hill in Syria, near Turkish border, on October 23, 2014. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
Rebel fighters fire a cannon, locally known as the Hell Cannon, towards government positions on October 24, 2014, in Handarat, on the northern outskirts of the Syrian city of Aleppo. Syrian rebels fought fierce clashes with loyalist troops in the divided area of Handarat just north of Aleppo a day after fighting that killed 15 soldiers and pro-regime militia as well as 12 rebels, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Sami Ali/AFP/Getty Images) # 
The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush transits the Gulf of Aden in this U.S. Navy handout picture taken October 23, 2014. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is returning to Naval Station Norfolk after supporting maritime security operations, strike operations in Iraq and Syria. (Reuters/U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Abe McNatt) #
A collection of airstrikes on the Syrian city of Kobani by the US-led coalition, as seen from Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border, throughout October and November of 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters and coalition airstrikes. (Left-to-right, top-row-to-bottom-row: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, Getty Images/Gokhan Sahin, AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach, AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach, AP Photo/Levend Ali, Reuters/Yannis Behrakis, AFP/Getty Images/Aris Messinis, AFP/Getty Images/Aris Messinis, Reuters/Osman Orsal) #
Mustafa's father (center) cries hearing his son suffering as he helps a doctor to stretch the boy's legs at a physical therapy center on November 6, 2014 in Eastern al-Ghouta, a rebel-held region outside Syria's capital of Damascus. Mustafa, 13, had his legs' tendons cut after he was injured in an airstrike four months before. Medical care in Syria has been disintegrated due to the ongoing conflict that erupted in March 2011. (Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images) #
Syrian Kurdish fighter Delkhwaz Sheikh Ahmad, 22, sits at his brother's house in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, on October 17, 2014 as he prepares to leave for Kobani, Syria, to rejoin the fighting. The father of two is a member of the People's Protection Units, also known as YPG and is fighting against ISIS militants in Kobani. Every few weeks, he takes a couple of days to cross the border into Turkey to visit his family that had evacuated. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis) #
Workers wrap the bodies of dead fighters loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at a morgue in Aleppo on October 30, 2014. The opposition Free Syrian Army said it killed the men near Aleppo city and that some of the dead had Iranian and Afghan nationalities. Rebels said the bodies are being preserved so they can be used in exchange for their own fallen comrades who are in the hands of the government. (Reuters/Abdalrhman Ismail) #
Rebel fighters monitor control screens for any movement of regime forces around the UNESCO-listed citadel where they hold a position on November 3, 2014 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The 5,000-year-old citadel, which towers 100 meters above the rest of the city, is now under the control of rebel fighters. (Zein Al-Rifai/AFP/Getty Images) #
The body of a Syrian boy lies in a makeshift clinic after a mortar reportedly fired by Syrian government forces fell in the besieged rebel town of Douma, northeast of Damascus, on November 11, 2014. Closing in on Douma, a town of 200,000 residents under siege since last year, the army has seized control of Mleiha and Adra and has set its sights on Jobar and Ain Tarma, all towns to the east of the capital. (Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images) #
Syrian children attend a class at the Nabaa Al-Hayat center for education and psychological support for children in places undergoing crisis in the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus, on October 22, 2014. Overall, some 4,000 Syrian schools have been destroyed, damaged or used to house the internally displaced in three years of warfare, leaving the educational system on the verge of ruin, said a report in May by the Damascus-based Syrian Center for Policy Research in conjunction with the UN Development Program and the UN Palestinian refugee agency. (Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images) #
Related links and information
Syria - Previous entries on In Focus
Amnesty report reveals desperate plight of Syrian refugees in Turkey - The Guardian, November 20, 2014
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