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Apr 2021
25m 59s

Syria's Kill Box

Foreign Policy
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On this episode of Syria's Lost Generation, we go to Idlib, the last province largely controlled by rebels fighting the Syrian government. The area, home to millions of internal refugees, is known as a kill box because it's entirely surrounded by government troops.


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