Syria's humanitarian crisis.

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More than 100,000 people have died in Syria's four-year-old civil war pitting President Bashar al-Assad against rebel groups fighting for his ouster. Among the war's victims are civilians, like the Palestinians in this photo lining up for food at the Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus, the capital. More than 18,000 Palestinians whose families were displaced during the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli wars have been under siege at Yarmouk since July. Women and children are dying of malnutrition or because of lack of medical care, according to...