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  • 31
    Jan
    2013
    5:53pm, EST

    Moments of resilience, courage and even joy visible on the faces of Syrian refugee children

    Jeff J. Mitchell / Getty Images

    Syrian refugee children play in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on Jan. 31, 2013.

    More than half the 642,000 refugees from the Syrian conflict flooding into neighboring countries are children, according to the United Nations. It's tempting to find hope in these portraits of children at the Zaatari camp in Jordan, to see resilience and courage instead of emotional scarring, but the words of a senior U.N. official, remind us that this may not be the case.

    "This is a children's refugee crisis. It's heartbreaking when we see these children arriving and particularly what we see in the days that follow. Many of them are withdrawn, we hear from the parents about bedwetting. These children have experienced and witnessed some of the most horrific scenes, seeing their parents or loved ones killed, their homes destroyed, their schools effected," said Panos Moumtzis, the U.N. Refugee Agency regional coordinator for Syrian refugees. 

    Read the full Reuters story from Jan. 17. 

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    A Syrian man carries a newborn baby in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan on Jan. 31.

    Slideshow: Syria uprising

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    A look back at the conflict that has overtaken the country.

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    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • Harrowing photos show last seconds of life on Syria's front line
    • Photos reveal Syrian rebels taking fight to Damascus
    • On the move again, Syrian refugees flee flooding

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  • 17
    Dec
    2012
    6:14pm, EST

    Manu Brabo / AP

    Cold weather comes to refugee camp in Azaz, Syria

    A Syrian woman stands near a fire to warm herself at a refugee camp in Azaz, Syria, Dec. 17, 2012. Thousands of Syrian refugees, who fled their homes because of fighting between Free Syrian Army fighters and government forces, struggled to keep warm as temperatures dropped to 36 degrees Fahrenheit in Azaz.

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  • 3
    Dec
    2012
    7:48am, EST

    Turkey scrambles jets as Syrian government forces bomb border town

    Laszlo Balogh / Reuters

    Syrians cross the border from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain to the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar after an air strike on December 3, 2012.

    Laszlo Balogh / Reuters

    Syrians run for cover as smoke rises over Ras al-Ain after an air strike, as seen from the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar on December 3, 2012.

    Reuters reports — Syrian government forces bombed rebel positions in the frontier town of Ras al-Ain on Monday, killing at least 12 people according to opposition activists, and prompting Turkey to scramble fighter jets along the border.

    The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said six of those killed by the air raids on the town's Mahatta neighborhood were rebel fighters and that 30 people were wounded.

    Report: Syrian rebels clash with Lebanon troops on border

    Heavy bursts of anti-aircraft fire shook the Turkish town of Ceylanpinar, which abuts Ras al-Ain, sending residents fleeing for cover. Columns of smoke rose up from the Syrian side and ambulances rushed the wounded to hospital. Read the full story.

    Laszlo Balogh / Reuters

    Syrians try to cross the border from Ras al-Ain to the Turkish border town of Ceylanpinar after an air strike on December 3, 2012.

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    Slideshow: Syria uprising

    Osman Orsal / Reuters

    A look back at the violence that has overtaken the country.

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    11 comments

    It would be great to see the Arab League step up to the plate and solve their own regional problem. They have the money, equipment, soldiers, but no guts.

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  • 26
    Oct
    2012
    4:32pm, EDT

    Manu Brabo / AP

    Displaced Syrian children play in a refugee camp near Atma, Idlib province, Syria, Oct. 26, 2012. A powerful car bomb exploded in Damascus and scattered fighting broke out in several areas across Syria Friday, quickly dashing any hopes that a shaky holiday cease-fire would hold for four days.

    Syrian refugees abide as cease-fire is broken

    Associated Press reports — Two deadly car bombs and sporadic fighting marred a shaky holiday truce Friday in Syria, although thousands of protesters used the brief respite in the civil war to pour into the streets and demand President Bashar Assad's ouster. Full story…

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  • 25
    Oct
    2012
    4:00pm, EDT

    After nearly 400-mile march, asylum seekers begin hunger strike in Berlin

    Thomas Peter / Reuters

    Afghan refugee Maiwand smokes a cigarette as he sits under an umbrella in front of Brandenburg Gate during a hunger strike in Berlin on Oct. 25.

    Approximately 20 refugees went on a hunger strike in Berlin, Germany on Wednesday, after traveling over 370 miles across Germany as part of a larger group of asylum seekers, according to Reuters. The refugees demanded that deportation and restrictions on their movements, among other things, end.

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    Refugees and activists of "Refugee Tent Action" shelter under an umbrella while being on a hunger strike in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany on Oct. 25. The previous day police officers took down a tent set up by the protesters. The group stages a protest for better rights for asylum seekers that began in September with a march from Wuerzburg, southern Germany to Berlin.

    Thomas Peter / Reuters

    An Iranian refugee sleeps in front of Brandenburg Gate during a hunger strike in Berlin Oct. 25. Some 20 refugees, mainly from Iran and Afghanistan, went on hunger strike on Oct. 24 demanding an end to deportations, obligatory camp accommodation to be abolished and restrictions on their movements be lifted, the refugees said. They are part of a larger group of asylum seekers who have marched some 372 miles from the southern town of Wuerzburg to the German capital.

    Previously on PhotoBlog: Refugees march across Germany to demand 'freedom and respect'

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    First followers of Islamic cult come on asylum and then they send those who give them asylum to asylums! When there are so many Muslim nations, they should go there. Why should they come to a non-Muslim kafir’s nation? We see Muslims inventing problems in most of the non-Muslim nations. Even i …

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  • 10
    Oct
    2012
    8:23am, EDT

    Syrians flee across river to escape fighting

    Osman Orsal / Reuters

    A wounded Syrian man is carried to an ambulance after crossing to Turkey over the Orontes river on the Turkish-Syrian border near the village of Hacipasa, in Hatay province on October 10, 2012.

    Osman Orsal / Reuters

    A Syrian family cross to Turkey by boat over the Orontes river on October 10, 2012.

    Reuters reports — Scores of Syrian civilians, many of them women with screaming children clinging to their necks, crossed a narrow river marking the border with Turkey as they fled the fighting in Azmarin and surrounding villages. Residents from the Turkish village of Hacipasa, nestled among olive groves, helped pull them across in small metal boats. 

    NYT: US sends secret task force to Jordan to help deal with Syria crisis

    "The firing started getting intense last night. Some people have been killed, some are lying wounded on the road," said a 55-year old woman, Mune, who fled Azmarin and sat with several adults and about 20 children outside a house in Hacipasa. Read the full story.

    Osman Orsal / Reuters

    A wounded Syrian man is carried to a boat to cross to Turkey on October 10, 2012.

    Osman Orsal / Reuters

    Syrians cross to Turkey by boat over the Orontes river on October 10, 2012. .

    Osman Orsal / Reuters

    A wounded Syrian man is helped after crossing to Turkey on October 10, 2012.

    Slideshow: Syria uprising

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    Pictures can only give you a very vague idea of the kind of destruction and suffering that is going on in Syria. I'm sure the reality of what those people are going through is much worse than any picture could convey.

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  • 5
    Oct
    2012
    11:41am, EDT

    Refugees march across Germany to demand 'freedom and respect'

    Thomas Peter / Reuters

    Refugees walk through a forest clearing during a protest march through Germany near the village of Ferch, near Potsdam, October 3, 2012.

    Thomas Peter / Reuters

    Turkish refugee Turgay Ulu removes his sock during a break in the protest march on October 3, 2012. Ulu, who said he was jailed in Turkey for his political convictions, is writing a blog about his experiences during the journey. "We are marching, because we want freedom and respect." he wrote.

    Thomas Peter / Reuters

    Refugees chat as they take a break during a protest march near the village of Ferch on October 3, 2012.

    Thomas Peter / Reuters

    Refugees and supporters pass vintage East German Trabant cars during their protest march in the town of Werder, near Potsdam on October 4, 2012.

    A group of some 20 to 30 refugees are marching 310 miles across Germany to protest their living conditions while seeking political asylum in the country. 

    The asylum seekers started their walk in the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg in September after breaking an official order that constrains their movement. They aim to reach Berlin on Saturday.

    Turgay Ulu, who said he was jailed in Turkey for his political convictions, is writing a blog about his experiences during the journey. "We are marching because we want freedom and respect," he wrote.

    -- Reuters

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    Is there even a Germany anymore, or has it devolved into a hovel for freeloaders, bums, and hippies? Ich für Deutschland weinen.

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  • 2
    Oct
    2012
    6:56am, EDT

    The fragility of life in Syria's borderlands

    Manu Brabo, a photographer for The Associated Press, took these photos in and around Azaz, a town in north west Syria close to the Turkish border. On Friday, a warplane bombed the town killing at least four people, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 

    Manu Brabo / AP

    Rada Hallabi, 4, who is sick with diabetes, lies on a blanket in a refugee camp on the border with Turkey, near Azaz village, Syria, on Sept. 30, 2012.

    Manu Brabo / AP

    The body of a Syrian woman is seen near Azaz's hospital after being shot by a sniper in the countryside around Azaz, near the Turkish border with Syria, on Oct. 1, 2012.

    Manu Brabo / AP

    A displaced Syrian woman and her grandson in a refugee camp In the border with Turkey, near Azaz village, Syria, Sept. 30, 2012.

    Manu Brabo / AP

    A defaced portrait of President Bashar al Assad is seen in a school used as an emergency refugee camp in Souran village, near the Turkish border with Syria, on Oct. 1, 2012.

    Manu Brabo / AP

    A displaced Syrian woman covers her face with a scarf in a school, where almost 15 families from Homs are living, in Souran, Syria, Oct. 1, 2012.

    Manu Brabo / AP

    Syrian boys play near a refugee camp on the border with Turkey, near Azaz village, Syria, Sept. 30, 2012.

    Manu Brabo / AP

    A displaced Syrian woman is seen in a building still under construction in an improvised refugee camp at the border with Turkey, near Azaz village, Syria, Sept. 30, 2012.

    Reuters reports — With tens of thousands fleeing Syria every month, the number of refugees worldwide in 2012 is set to be the highest this century, according to a senior United Nations official.

    Antonio Guterres, the body's High Commissioner for Refugees, told his UNHCR agency's executive committee Monday that its ability to cope was being stretched to the limit. Read the full story.

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    i am so grateful to have been born in USA

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  • 4
    Sep
    2012
    12:14pm, EDT

    Children amid the turmoil of war in Syria

    Muhammed Muheisen / AP

    Ghassan Khalil, 30, who fled his home in Marea, Syria, 12 days ago due to Syrian government shelling of his house, holds his sleeping son Mahmoud, 2, who suffers from fever, as they take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz, on Sept. 3.

    Muhammed Muheisen / AP

    A Syrian child stands next to rebel fighters checking a house that was damaged in bombing by government forces in Marea, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, on Sept. 4.

     

    AP reports: More than 100,000 Syrians sought refugee status during August in what the United Nations describes as an eye-popping escalation in the pace of departures since the hostilities began.

    The August total accounts for more than 40 percent of the 234,368 Syrian refugees who, as of the last count on September 2, had fled for surrounding countries since the uprising began 17 months ago, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday. Full story

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    I have been to Syria a few times, and it has always been very hospitable. I aches me to see the country in such ruins. I wish I could adopt some of the poor orphaned children so I could offer them a chance at a normal childhood and an education.

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  • 23
    Aug
    2012
    11:38am, EDT

    Displaced Syrians struggle to find safe shelter

    Muhammed Muheisen / AP

    An elderly Syrian man, who fled his home due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, takes refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey.

    Muhammed Muheisen / AP

    A Syrian girl lies on the ground next to her father, while they take refuge at a Turkey border crossing.

    Slideshow: Syria uprising

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    After months of protests and violent crackdowns, a look back at the violence that has overtaken the country.

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    Thousands of Syrians who have been displaced by the country's civil war are struggling to find safe shelter while shelling and airstrikes by government forces continue.  Many families have taken refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing near the Syrian town of Azaz in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey.

    More than 170,000 Syrian refugees have been registered in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq, the U.N. refugee agency said.

    Photos in this blog post were all shot on Thursday by AP photographer Muhammed Muheisen.

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    A Syrian man fixes his car at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey.

    Muhammed Muheisen / AP

    A Syrian girl, who fled her home with her sleeps by her family's belongings, while she and others take refuge at the Bab al-Salameh border crossing.

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    May they find even an ounce of peace of mind away from the war and take care of eachother while away from what's left of their homes.

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  • 21
    Aug
    2012
    6:18pm, EDT

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    Children cast shadows in West Bank

    Palestinian children cast shadows on a wall in the Askar refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Nablus during an Eid al-Fitr celebration on Aug. 21.

    Muslims worldwide celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holidays which mark the end of the Muslims' Holy fasting month of Ramadan.

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  • 13
    Aug
    2012
    12:23pm, EDT

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    Competing for space on the jungle gym

    Children play at a United Nations camp for Syrian refugees outside the northern Jordanian city of Mafraq on Aug. 13. The camp was set up on July 29 and so far more than 6,000 Syrian refugees have arrived.

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