Syria, a Country in Ruins

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 The predominantly Kurdish town of Kobani is devastated after months under siege by Islamist forces and airstrikes by a United States-led coalition.


Sources: United Nations Institute for Training and Research; Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; Caerus Associates; news reports; OpenStreetMap.  Additional production and editing work by Josh Keller and David Furst. NYTimes

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