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'No Words' Left to Describe Syria's Carnage

As regional powers confront each other on the battlefield, Syrians keep dying.
Source: Bassam Khabieh / Reuters

Recent events in Syria have prompted screaming headlines about chemical-weapons attacks, a looming U.S.-Russia confrontation, and the risks of an even bigger, regional war.But the underlying reality of the warlives being lost, day after dayis so constant nearly seven years in as to effectively cease being “news.”One powerful reflection of this, in contrast to the many thousands of words spent analyzing Syria’s complex battlefield, was a kind of moment of silence, in statement form.UNICEF, the UN children’s

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