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Young girls soothe babies sheltering underground in Eastern Ghouta.

“We’ve been buried alive:” Inside Eastern Ghouta’s underground bunkers

Syrian civilians run for cover from bombardment in Eastern Ghouta, Syria. Photo: Abdulmonam Eassa/AFP

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Refugees in Germany

For refugee children in Berlin, soccer becomes a joyful escape and a way to make friends

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Patients with kidney failure receive treatment at a hospital in Eastern Ghouta.

Airstrikes in Syria

Behind the headlines: Attacks on Eastern Ghouta

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Syrian boy outside his home in Douma

Airstrikes in Syria

Isolated airstrikes won’t save Syrian lives: what Trump can do to help

Mandy Patinkin with IRC staff at a refugee settlement in Uganda

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Mandy Patinkin: Witnessing welcome in Uganda

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Nightline: Inside Yemen's civil war

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Inside Yemen: humanitarian disaster

Abdullah at an IRC health center, where he received treatment for cholera

The world's worst humanitarian crisis is in Yemen

A health workers writes notes as he examines a child sitting on his father's lap

Follow a mobile health team treating children in Yemen's remotest villages

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Breaking down barriers through the power of sports

IRC’s David Miliband responds to news of airstrikes in Syria

IRC: Without a strategy, US airstrikes mean more danger for Syrian civilians

U.S. lags far behind in its commitment to admit 45,000 refugees this year

David Miliband's remarks at the Facing History Benefit Dinner

IRC: Suspected chemical attack in Douma may be a war crime as over 70 civilians reported dead