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    Syria: Where civilians are facing war without end

    The subject didn't come up in this week's first encounter between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but the nation of Syria is turning to rubble. Secretary of State John Kerry hoped that a week-long ceasefire deal with Russia might be extended toward ending almost six years of civil war in Syria.

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    By Warren Olney • Sep 28, 2016 • 1 min read

    The subject didn't come up in this week's first encounter between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but the nation of Syria is turning to rubble. Secretary of State John Kerry hoped that a week-long ceasefire deal with Russia might be extended toward ending almost six years of civil war in Syria. But the fighting hardly stopped after all, and now the siege of Aleppo is more intense than ever. The US, Britain, France and Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have accused the Assad regime and its Russian ally of committing war crimes. We hear the voices of boys in Aleppo playing in water-filed craters created by barrel bombs that have killed their friends and family, and talk with the doctor's wife who filmed that scene. We also hear from a peace activist who's met with Bashar al-Assad, along with other observers.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Andrea Brody

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

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      Jenny Hamel

      KCRW

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      Andrew Tabler

      Washington Institute for Near East Policy

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      Waad Alkateab

      Documentary filmmaker, director of “For Sama”

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      Vanessa Beeley

      independent writer and photographer

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    Syrian peace efforts fail and bombings intensify
    1. 1:53Former Israeli leader Shimon Peres dies at age 93
    2. 8:49Syria: Where civilians are facing war without endYou’re reading this
    3. 43:12Elon Musk's plan to make people an interplanetary species
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