A boy looks on while residents inspect a damaged building in the rebel held besieged city of Douma, a suburb of Damascus. Picture: BASSAM KHABIEH/REUTERS
Hundreds of thousands of people have died and millions made homeless since protests against President Bashar al-Assad in 2011 escalated into a civil war that drew in foreign powers and left Syria carved into zones of control. They included fighting and aerial bombardments in the country’s northeast and northwest that left dozens of civilians dead and restricted access to food and water, the report said.
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