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  • A family walks away from the camera through a destroyed town
    TEL RIFAAT, SYRIA: This family headed home after receiving milk from Kurdish Red Crescent aid workers.
  • A woman washes dishes inside the remnant of a building with a makeshift home around her
    TEL QARAH, SYRIA: Suham, 55, cleaned coffee cups just half a metre away from two live improvised explosive devices, likely planted two years ago by fighters with the so-called Islamic State.
  • A woman grieves at a grave with others around her at other graves
    AHRAS, SYRIA: A woman grieved for her husband, who she said died because he could not get medicine.
  • An exterior face of a destroyed building with the silhouette of a young girl in an open doorway on the second floor
    AHRAS, SYRIA: Many people fled with children, like this girl who now calls this destroyed house home.
  • AHRAS, SYRIA: One corner of this school, destroyed in the push to liberate the town from IS, is now home to a family displaced from Afrin.
  • MAHATAH, SYRIA: In villages like this one, where a father and his daughter stand outside their new home, spring wildflowers and other overgrowth may conceal explosives.
  • A crowd gathers around a truck. An older man, the focal point of the photo, walks away with bread in hand.
    Even for those who receive bread from aid organizations, water can still be a problem.
  • An overhead shot of many families set up inside the open mosque floor. The carpet is green with a decorative pattern.
    AHRAS, SYRIA: Abandoned public and religious buildings in Ahras and nearby villages now provide shelter. Dozens of families live in this empty mosque.
  • A crowd recently gathered around a Syrian Arab Red Crescent worker to register for aid.
  • Map of rebel enclave in Eastern Ghouta, showing territory lost to Syrian government forces and Islam Army's current control of Douma
  • Map of rebel enclave in Eastern Ghouta, showing territory lost to Syrian government forces and Islam Army's current control of Douma
  • Mujibur Rahman lives with a rare form of bone cancer doctors say is too advanced to cure. The 10-year-old Rohingya refugee previously used a wheelchair, but has become more active after starting treatment to help with his pain
  • Mujibur Rahman lives with a rare form of bone cancer doctors say is too advanced to cure. The 10-year-old Rohingya refugee previously used a wheelchair, but has become more active after starting treatment to help with his pain
  • Mujibur Rahman lives with a rare form of bone cancer doctors say is too advanced to cure. The 10-year-old Rohingya refugee previously used a wheelchair, but has become more active after starting treatment to help with his pain
  • Khaleda, 18, tends to her younger sister Sanjida, 16, who was almost completely paralysed after contracting meningitis in Myanmar. Sanjida has regained limited movement after being treated for pain symptoms in the Rohingya refugee camps
  • Khaleda, 18, tends to her younger sister Sanjida, 16, who was almost completely paralysed after contracting meningitis in Myanmar. Sanjida has regained limited movement after being treated for pain symptoms in the Rohingya refugee camps
  • Gul Hazar had a tumour removed after Farzana Khan’s palliative care team found her and referred the 45-year-old breast cancer patient to a field hospital in the refugee settlements
  • Map of Syrian refugee and displacement numbers by country
  • IRIN News Annual Report 2016
  • Aerial view of tyre tracks and footprints in the desert
    On the left, tyre tracks left from vehicles that carry migrants who have enough money to pay for the 2-hour drive. On the right, footprints marking the path that migrants took on the long walk from Obock to the Red Sea departure point
  • An aerial view of a desert road with little in the distance
    The route from Obock to the Red Sea coast where migrants depart to Yemen
  • An aerial view straight down onto a truck in the desert
    The route from Obock to the Red Sea coast where migrants depart to Yemen
  • A man walks away from camera down an outstretched road in a desert scene
    Not everyone reaches their destination. Zaro Hailyu, 28, walked for 15 days from his home in Eastern Ethiopia to Obock, hoping to cross into Yemen and Saudi Arabia, but he ran out of money
  • A view between two long rows of identical white box shelters
    New prefabricated shelters, all of them outfitted with air conditioning, but they are not yet connected to electricity, and they remain unoccupied
  • A group of men sit and lay on the floor inside a large tent with UNHCR branding and nets
    24-year-old Muhamad Ali Sakaf, from the city of Taiz, in the red shirt, arrived two nights before without knowing what was next. “For the moment, we don’t know. We are settled, we just arrived,” he said

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