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This podcast is about syria. A country which nowadays seems forgotten and left alone. Hopefully we can draw more attention to syrias struggles by talking about them.

"Blast Kills Dozens in Kurdish-Held Syrian Town; Crisis in Aleppo Worsens" is from the July 27, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Hwaida Saad and narrated by Kristi Burns.

August 21, 2013: A chemical weapons attack on the suburbs of Damascus reminds the world of the existence of the Syrian war. Hundreds of journalists from every corner of the world rush to the frontier only to leave disappointed when Obama decides not to bomb. They leave behind 200,000 estimated victims, and more than half of a population of 22 million people dispersed or refugeed in nearby countries: the worst humanitarian crisis since WWII according to the UN.

*Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Award* An "important and riveting story, masterfully told" of family, sacrifice and the friendship between a young Syrian refugee and an American boy living in Brussels. The Center for Children's Books calls Nowhere Boy a "perilous journey, tempered by the...