GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Unpromising Choices in Syria

Oct 21, 2015 | 08:00 GMT

A picture taken on March 15, 2014 shows part of the seven-square-kilometre (2.8-square-mile) Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan near the border with Syria which provides shelter to around 100,000 Syrian refugees. Syrian refugees in the sprawling desert camp in Jordan fear that President Bashar al-Assad's likely re-election this year will leave their dream of a return home as distant as ever. The brutal war in Syria between the regime and its foes shows no sign of abating and has killed at least 146,000 people since it erupted in mid-March 2011. And 2.5 million Syrians have fled abroad and another 6.5 million have been internally displaced. Jordan is home to more than 500,000 of the refugees.
(KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images)
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