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Photo Share: Children caught in crisis, Syria

Photo: Peter Biro/IRC

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IRC providing lifesaving support inside Syria

So little can mean so much: Boots, blankets, socks, plastic sheeting and duct tape such as those in this IRC emergency kit are essential items in Syria where millions of civilians are in need.

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March is deadliest month yet in Syria's civil war

A man carries the body of a boy after an air strike north of the Syrian city of Aleppo. An estimated third of the victims in Syria's civil war are civilians.

Photo: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters, Courtesy of Thomson Reuters Alertnet

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Take action: Syrian refugees need your voice

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1 million and counting

A young Syrian refugee at an International Rescue Committee women's center in Arsal, a town of 40,000 people in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. As much as 80 percent of those fleeing Syria have settled in urban areas rather than refugee camps.

Photo: Peter Biro/IRC

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U.S. vow of non-lethal aid for Syrian rebels fails to satisfy Assad opposition

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U.S. vow of non-lethal aid for Syrian rebels fails to satisfy Assad opposition
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February 28, 2013
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WASHINGTON — For the first time in the two-year push to topple President Bashar Assad, the United States said Thursday that it will send food and medicine directly to armed Syrian rebels.

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Talking & Listening

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Talking & Listening
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February 14, 2013
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The Huffington Post
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Domiz camp, Northern Iraq -- I have been anticipating and dreading the Domiz camp women's meeting for weeks. It was from Domiz camp that I heard the reports of sexual violence I wrote about in my first blog. Two days ago we finally sat down to talk together -- the Domiz women refugees and I -- although I'd been warned that it was not culturally appropriate for me to ask directly about sexual assault.

Sarah Wayne Callies: Syria’s Kurds got me

A Syrian Kurdish refugee family peers from their tent in Domiz camp, northern Iraq. The father clasps a camp registration document, which enables the family to receive a tent, food, electricity and water.

Photo: Ned Colt/IRC
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Map: Syria - a regional crisis

This infographic from our recent report on the crisis in Syria shows the vast numbers of Syrians who are displaced within the country or who were forced to flee to neighboring countries to escape the ongoing violence. View larger.>>

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