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Topic: syrian rebels

Smoke billows in the town of Douma, the last opposition holdout in Syria's Eastern Ghouta. (Getty/Salon)

Trump flirts with World War III

Patrick Lawrence
Omran Daqneesh (AP/Aleppo Media Center)

Kids: Pawns in Syria's war

Danielle Ryan
(AP/Getty/Olivier Douliery)

Trump's ISIS plan: No plan

Danielle Ryan
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton - Alternet
(Al-Nusra Front Twitter page via AP, File)

on the "bin laden front"

Ben Norton - Alternet
Syrians walk down a destroyed street in Aleppo's al-Akroub neighborhood on December 17, 2016. (Getty/Youssef Karwashan)

Aleppo and the empathy gap

Jalal Baig
Syria President Bashar al-Assad (AP)

NICOLE GAOUETTE - Bloomberg
Barbara Lee (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

New antiwar plan emerges

Joan Walsh
(AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Less popular than Nixon!

Alex Seitz-Wald
(AP/Evan Vucci)

Associated Press
(AP/Charles Dharapak)

Syria: What you need to know

Brian Katulis
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Priyanka Boghani - GlobalPost
Syrian rebels aim during a weapons training exercise outside Idlib, Syria. (AP)

Barbara Surk
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Natasha Lennard
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian people gather in front of a crater caused by an explosion hit a university in Aleppo, Syria. (AP/SANA)

Barbara Surk
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Natasha Lennard