Syrian youth still paying high price for decade of war: Red Cross


  • World
  • Wednesday, 10 Mar 2021

FILE PHOTO: Ahmad Hamra, is pictured with his children outside of a tent at an internally displaced Syrian camp, in northern Aleppo near the Syrian-Turkish border, Syria February 17, 2021. REUTERS/Mahmoud Hassano

GENEVA (Reuters) - Young Syrians have suffered heavy personal losses in a decade of war and still have to face rebuilding their shattered homeland, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Wednesday.

A new ICRC survey of 1,400 Syrian nationals living in Syria or in exile in Lebanon and Germany highlights the costs for those aged 18-25 of a war that killed hundreds of thousands, displaced millions more and destroyed schools and hospitals.

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