No end to violence: A Syria Civil Defence member carrying a wounded child in the besieged town of Hamoria, Eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, Syria in January 2018. — Reuters/File Photo
AS it enters its 10th year, the war in Syria is anything but abating, as foreign powers scrap over a ravaged country where human suffering keeps reaching new levels.
When protesters in March 2011 demanded their rights and regime change, they likely never imagined it would trigger a reaction that has led to the 21st century’s biggest war.
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Syria War
No end to violence: A Syria Civil Defence member carrying a wounded child in the besieged town of Hamoria, Eastern Ghouta, in Damascus, Syria in January 2018. — Reuters/File Photo
Hanging on: A man holding a baby saved from under rubble, who survived what activists say was an airstrike by forces loyal to Assad in Masaken Hanano in Aleppo on February 14, 2014. —Reuters/File Photo
Nowhere to go: A sleeping child escapes the violence with her fleeing family outside eastern Ghouta. — Reuters/File Photos
Unexpected escalation: Residents carrying an injured man after an alleged seven air-strikes by forces loyal to Syria’s President al-Assad near Damascus in 2015.
Running to safety: Displaced Syrian children from western Aleppo countryside riding on a lorry with their belongings in Hazano near Idlib last month.
Rebuilding needed: Soldiers walking past damaged buildings in Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus in May 2018. — Reuters/File Photo
FILE PHOTO: Residents run from a fire at a gasoline and oil shop in Aleppo's Bustan Al-Qasr neighbourhood October 20, 2013. REUTERS/Haleem Al-Halabi/File Photo
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