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Fighting escalates in Syria’s Deraa

Name: Fighting escalates in Syria’s Deraa
Uploaded: 2017-06-26T13:53:56Z
Duration: 2 min 36 s
Description: Deraa province is considered the starting point of the Syrian civil war. It largely escaped the devastation seen elsewhere for the past six years – until fighting escalated in the past four months.

Deraa province is considered the starting point of the Syrian civil war. It largely escaped the devastation seen elsewhere for the past six years – until fighting escalated in the past four months.

Deraa province is considered the starting point of the Syrian civil war.

It was where 15 children were imprisoned for scrawling anti-government graffiti, leading to a brutal government crackdown on demonstrations.

It largely escaped the devastation seen elsewhere for the past six years – until fighting escalated in the past four months.

Al Jazeera’s Natasha Ghoneim reports from Gaziantep in Turkey, near the Syrian border.

By Natasha Ghoneim