Syria's despair: why the US-led military campaign is failing

By Tom Allard
Updated September 5 2015 - 2:08am, first published 1:19am
A young Syrian migrant girl is held by her mother next to railroad tracks where migrants wait to cross into Macedonia in Idomeni, Greece. Photo: Win McNamee
A young Syrian migrant girl is held by her mother next to railroad tracks where migrants wait to cross into Macedonia in Idomeni, Greece. Photo: Win McNamee
A Syrian refugee woman tends to her daughter while cooking inside her tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, in August 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
A Syrian refugee woman tends to her daughter while cooking inside her tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan, in August 2015. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
In this Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015 photo, Syrian refugee Huda Alsayil, 20, holds her newborn son Mezwid, 7 days, inside her tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan. Photo: AP
In this Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015 photo, Syrian refugee Huda Alsayil, 20, holds her newborn son Mezwid, 7 days, inside her tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border, on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan. Photo: AP

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