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Heavy rains flood a camp of displaced Syrians in Atme, near the Turkish border. IMAGES
Civilians took to the roads on Friday to flee Afrin, as Turkish-led forces pressed an operation to seize the Kurdish-majority region. IMAGES
Drone footage of a camp for displaced Gazans in Rafah near the border with Egypt. IMAGES
Plumes of smoke rise in the mountainous Jabal al-Zawiya area of Syria's Idlib province following bombings by Russian aircraft. The White Helmets volunteer emergency service said that two children were killed and five other civilians wounded when their home in the village of Kansafra was hit. Russia is the main military ally of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. IMAGES
At the Cilvegozu border crossing between Syria and Turkey, queues of Syrians fleeing the earthquake area pile up behind the checkpoint more than 10 days after the disaster. The February 6 earthquake claimed the lives of more than 38,000 people in southeastern Turkey and nearly 3,700 in neighbouring Syria. IMAGES
Residents and rescuers search for earthquake victims and survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings in the village of Besnaya in Syria's rebel-held northwestern Idlib province on the border with Turkey. IMAGES