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IDLIB, SYRIA - OCTOBER 2026: Children play in the garden of the Bardakli Orphanage in Idlib, Syria, in October 2026. Some of the children have lost their fathers in the war, others have lost their entire families, while some were left at the orphanage for care, and despite their different losses, play has become their common language. (Photo by Mehmet Kılıç/LensOne)

The Childhood Orphaned by War

IDLIB, SYRIA - OCTOBER 2026: Children play in the garden of the Bardakli Orphanage in Idlib, Syria, in October 2026. Some of the children have lost their fathers in the war, others have lost their entire families, while some were left at the orphanage for care, and despite their different losses, play has become their common language. (Photo by Mehmet Kılıç/LensOne)

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