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For six years now, Syrians have endured the loss and hardship caused by a protracted civil war. An estimated 4.9 million Syrians have fled their homeland, filling refugee camps in neighboring countries, and another six million remain displaced inside Syria’s borders.

While Syrian government forces—backed by Russian air support—appear to have gained the upper hand in many places, recapturing the city of Aleppo in December, street battles and airstrikes continue to take place nearly every day.

Mohammed Mohiedin Anis, or Abu Omar, 70, smokes his pipe as he sits in his destroyed bedroom, listening to music on his hand-cranked gramophone in Aleppo's formerly rebel-held al-Shaar neighborhood in Syria.

A reported car bomb explosion at a Syrian pro-government position during clashes between rebel fighters and regime forces to take control of an area in the southern city of Daraa on February 20, 2017.

The body of a victim lies on the floor at a makeshift morgue following an airstrike in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, on November 10, 2016.

Residents walk through the destruction of the once rebel-held Salaheddine neighborhood in the eastern Aleppo, Syria, on January 20, 2017.

Syrian Mahmoud Al-Khatib, a fighter from the Jaish al-Islam (Islam Army), the foremost rebel group in Damascus province who fiercely oppose both the Syrian regime and ISIS, holds a position inside a building on the frontline in the town of Bilaliyah, east of the capital Damascus, on February 4, 2017.

Rebel fighters from the Jaish al-Fatah brigades fire mortar shells towards western government-controlled districts on October 30, 2016.

Free Syrian army fighters stand atop a hill as the moon is seen in the background in Deraa Governorate, Syria, on August 16, 2016.

Residents of Bir Said village sit inside a home, after their return to the village when Syrian Democratic Forces took control of the area from ISIS militants in northern Raqqa province, Syria, on February 7, 2017.

Syrian musicians play at the site of the damaged Roman amphitheatre in the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria, during a tour organized by the Syrian army for journalists, on March 4, 2017.

A displaced Syrian, fleeing from ISIS, in a refugee camp in al-Hol, in Syria's northeastern Hassakeh province, on February 1, 2017.

Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad stand atop a damaged tank in the government-controlled area of Aleppo, on December 13, 2016.

A rebel fighter watches news about Donald Trump's election on his smart phone in the rebel-held beseiged area in Aleppo on November 9, 2016.

A fighter runs to avoid sniper fire, in Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus, on September 5, 2016.

Souad Hamidi removes her Niqab after Syria Democratic Forces took control of her village, on the outskirts of Manbij city, on June 9, 2016.

Fighters from the Free Syrian Army take part in a battle against ISIS jihadists in the northern Syrian village of Yahmoul on October 10, 2016.

A Free Syrian Army fighter reacts as he mourns near the body of his brother, who died during an offensive against ISIS fighters to take control of Qabasin town, on January 10, 2017.

Fighters from the Kurdish-Arab alliance, rest near the village of Khirbet al-Jahshe, as they advance towards an ISIS bastion on December 13, 2016.

A civil defense member sits at a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel-held Douma neighborhood of Damascus, on November 7, 2016.

A young Syrian man carries a wounded child following reported government airstrike on the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 25, 2017.

Wounded Syrian girls await treatment at a makeshift hospital following government airstrike on the rebel-held town of Douma, on February 25, 2017.

A Syrian Democratic Forces fighter, near the Euphrates River, north of Raqqa city, Syria, on March 8, 2017.

An injured Syrian man waits outside a hospital on December 16, 2016.

Syrians walk through the destruction in the old city of Aleppo, on January 21.

A Syrian refugee walks in the rain, as she shelters a young child outside a UN-operated medical clinic immediately on the Jordanian-side on March 1, 2017.

Syrian security forces inspect the scene of a reported suicide bombing at the old palace of justice building in Damascus on March 15, 2017.

An injured girl reacts at a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel-held Douma neighborhood of Damascus on November 7, 2016.

Mohamed Ataya, a 31-year-old Syrian man tends to his plants on the rooftop of his damaged building in the Syrian rebel-held town of Arbin, in the eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on March 3, 2017.