Quoted: "Harrowing" stories from Syrian refugees

A doctor examines a young Syrian refugee at an International Rescue Committee clinic in Ramtha, Jordan. 

Photo: Ned Colt/IRC

"The stories from refugees we met about what drove them out of Syria were harrowing - massive destruction from random shelling and bombing, arrests and torture, attacks on families, including rape, rapidly disappearing medical and education services, and dwindling supplies of increasingly expensive food. The picture was of a Syria much more badly destroyed than generally thought, and likely to emerge from war in desperate shape, whatever the outcome of the conflict."

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