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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.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 52m ListenGuest 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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