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AZUZ: People in the Middle Eastern country of Syria have been suffering the horrors of war for years. Since Syria's civil war started in 2011, the United Nations estimates that 400,000 Syrians have been killed, more than 6 million have lost their homes and more than 5 million have left the country. The war involves government forces fighting to stay in power, rebel groups that want that government overthrown¹. Terrorists organizations and other countries, like the U.S. and Russia, whose militaries have also been involved.

Idlib is a province in northwestern Syria, near the country's border with Turkey. It's the largest area that still control by rebels. And in recent days, fighting between them and Syrian government forces has gotten worse. The consequences are borne by civilians².

ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It feels like one is peering into a macabre³ dollhouse of broken lives. Bits of concrete tumble down as people try to clean up or salvage⁴ what they can amid the horrors that they can't escape.

Five of his relatives were in that building, three children among them.

Images like this are familiar a year ago from the siege of Aleppo, but this is Idlib City. This is where families were supposed to be safe. This was meant to be a refuge, one of the last remaining ones, part of a so-called de-escalation zone that lately has become anything but.

The four strikes that hit here happened five days before we arrived and many of those we met had actually fled from Aleppo.

So lucky they were in that back room.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

DAMON: Mohammad Hacomachi(ph) is haunted by all he has lost. His wife was killed in Aleppo six years ago. He's raising his two sons on his own.

We head south where some towns already feel deserted⁵. In Maarat al-Numaan, closer to the frontlines of the fighting, children rummaged⁶ through the aftermath of bombs to look for plastic to sell.

We do get scared, we hide from the bombs, they say.

The Syrian regime and its foreign backers' latest push seems aimed at eliminating or at the very least sophisticating the last major rebel stronghold.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been on the move the last few weeks. Many fleeing ahead of what they know is coming or as soon as the first strikes hit.

Some live in makeshift camps along the road to Turkey, bringing everything they can, including their livestock⁷.

1 overthrown   

adj. 打翻的，推倒的，倾覆的 动词overthrow的过去分词

参考例句：

• The president was overthrown in a military coup. 总统在军事政变中被赶下台。
• He has overthrown the basic standards of morality. 他已摒弃了基本的道德标准。

2 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

3 macabre   

adj.骇人的，可怖的

参考例句：

• He takes a macabre interest in graveyards.他那么留意墓地，令人毛骨悚然。
• Mr Dahl was well-known for his macabre adult stories called 'Tales of the Unexpected'.达尔先生以成人恐怖小说集《意料之外的故事》闻名于世。

4 salvage   

v.救助，营救，援救；n.救助，营救

参考例句：

• All attempts to salvage the wrecked ship failed.抢救失事船只的一切努力都失败了。
• The salvage was piled upon the pier.抢救出的财产被堆放在码头上。

5 deserted   

adj.荒芜的，荒废的，无人的，被遗弃的

参考例句：

• The deserted village was filled with a deathly silence.这个荒废的村庄死一般的寂静。
• The enemy chieftain was opposed and deserted by his followers.敌人头目众叛亲离。

6 rummaged   

翻找，搜寻( rummage的过去式和过去分词 )； 已经海关检查

参考例句：

• I rummaged through all the boxes but still could not find it. 几个箱子都翻腾遍了也没有找到。
• The customs officers rummaged the ship suspected to have contraband goods. 海关人员仔细搜查了一艘有走私嫌疑的海轮。

7 livestock   

n.家畜，牲畜

参考例句：

• Both men and livestock are flourishing.人畜两旺。
• The heavy rains and flooding killed scores of livestock.暴雨和大水淹死了许多牲口。