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The Earthquake

Syria's catastrophe continues

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James Snell
Feb 17, 2023
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Syria’s earthquake is a horror atop horrors, an insult after a decade of cruel insults. 

The country possibly allowed itself to think it had seen its fill of rubble. After a decade of war, cities which have not been rebuilt still lie ghostly and empty and choked with dust. Overcrowded refugee camps in the north and east give little shelter or security to…

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