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    Life in Syria after Nearly Five Years of War

    What five years of civil war, regional strife and international terrorism has wrought in Syria. We hear dispatches from the humanitarian crisis that may well be getting worse.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Barbara Bogaev • Feb 18, 2016 • 52m Listen

    Guest host Barbara Bogaev looks at what five years of civil war, regional strife and international terrorism has wrought in Syria. We hear dispatches from the humanitarian crisis that may well be getting worse.

    Later on the program, would you like hollow points with that? A journalist spends three days behind the counter of Vegas Gun Shop.

    Photo: A man selling pastries walks past the rubble of damaged buildings in the rebel held al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, February 10, 2016. (Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters)

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      Barbara Bogaev

      radio journalist

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      Christine Detz

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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      Gideon Brower

      Independent Producer

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