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Photos: Children in Syria’s war

An armed boy in Aleppo, Syria, says he is a fighter with the Suqoor al Sham rebel group. He claimed to have been born in 1989, making him 24 or 25.

An armed boy in Aleppo, Syria, says he is a fighter with the Suqoor al Sham rebel group. He claimed to have been born in 1989, making him 24 or 25.  (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

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Syrians talk about a “lost generation” of their children, an innocence stolen in the three-year conflict between opposition forces and the government of Bashar Assad.

Gathering water

Children wash in and collect water from a pool in an Aleppo neighborhood where the water had been cut off.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

In the street

A child chases a cat, unseen, down a street in an Aleppo neighborhood left almost entirely deserted because of Syrian government barrel bombings.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Father's grave

Children water their father’s grave in hopes of getting more of the yellow flowers to bloom there.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Sharing rice

Boys supervise a barrel full of a rice mixture as one of their neighbors gets his free share in Aleppo.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Bomb damage

Two government barrel bombs leave an Aleppo building badly damaged.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Preparing food

A man cooks kebabs in Aleppo, Syria.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Gasoline for sale

A makeshift gas station is set up in Aleppo, Syria.  (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Bombed vehicle

Men check out a bomb-damaged vehicle in Aleppo, Syria.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

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