叙利亚长达八年的内战夺去了50万人的生命，使数百万人流离失所，摧毁了一个国家，没有人比青年人更脆弱，青年人的痛苦将在战火平息后持续很久。

通过以下方式获得引人注目的图像新闻周刊讲述叙利亚境内一些儿童的生活是怎样的，由于土耳其支持的对库尔德人领导的军队的袭击，他们再次遭受冲突的蹂躏。

虽然该国多方面冲突的一些战场已经平静下来，但在土耳其——一个与叙利亚叛乱分子结盟的北约国家——和库尔德人领导的部队之间开辟了一条新战线，库尔德人领导的部队在五角大楼与伊斯兰国激进组织(伊斯兰国)的战斗中发挥了最大作用。在对叙利亚进行多次干预后，美国改变了立场试图平息这场特别的战斗。

不管有没有美国的支持，土耳其入侵叙利亚北部的决定导致了一场新的人道主义危机，儿童被夹在中间。

“我在这个地区已经看过很多次了，”目前报道叙利亚东北部局势的丹麦自由记者西娅·彼得森告诉记者新闻周刊。“任何战争都不能超越打击和影响平民，首先是儿童。我见过很多关于儿童的故事——伊拉克、叙利亚、也门和阿富汗——他们总是给我留下深刻的内心影响。”

 

哈塞克法瓦尔·胡利学校的教室里躺着一个只有几个月大的小女孩，现在她是叙利亚东北部估计超过13万名流离失所的平民之一。

 

 

“我的腿在哪里？为什么别人都有两条腿，我却只有一条腿？”卡米什洛只有八岁的莎拉被绑在病床上哭泣。她的房子在土耳其入侵的第二天，在事实上的首府罗爪哇地区的一个街区遭到炮击。萨拉不仅失去了右腿，还失去了她的哥哥，13岁的穆罕默德。

 

 

八岁的萨拉的家人可以为他们目前的处境责备很多人:美国从叙利亚北部撤军。土耳其总统雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安追求他的安全区。西方盟友被动地从远处观望。但是根据萨拉的母亲努里曼的说法，她只责怪一个人:她自己，因为她没有早点从他们家撤离。

 

 

仍然处于休克和创伤状态的八岁莎拉现在很少说话，不与任何人进行眼神交流，似乎也没有注意到邻居和家人送她进医院的粉色和红色泰迪熊和金手镯。她仍然没有意识到她13岁的哥哥穆罕默德被杀，她只是用小手抓着一堆钞票和手机，因为炸弹离开了她一条腿，她已经消失在YouTube漫画的世界里。

 

 

“美国人背叛了我们。他们出卖了我们。他们让我们无家可归。埃尔多安想要我们做什么？”一位紧紧抱着孙女的祖母不断问我们，因为她的家人不得不逃离拉斯艾恩，现在她正努力在哈塞克的法瓦尔胡利学校的教室里过上体面的生活。

 

 

土耳其愤怒行动以炮击拉斯艾因市为起点，一名女孩匆忙离开自己的家乡，试图用破旧的课桌在哈塞克的法瓦尔胡利学校玩耍。该市的30所学校已被改造成境内流离失所者庇护所。

 

 

“我们现在的情况还不清楚。我们被蒙在鼓里。我们只想回家。我不在乎谁接管这座城市，但如果埃尔多安从哈塞克的一所学校收容所带走41岁的易卜拉欣·阿卜杜拉·⁠—a(Ibrahim Abdallah)工人拉斯·艾因(Ras al-Ayn)，我们就无法返回。

 

 

19岁的贾米拉和她的一个儿子，以及26岁的丈夫艾哈迈德穆罕默德和他们的家人乘坐摩托车和汽车逃跑，土耳其入侵的消息几乎与空袭同时袭击了他们在拉斯艾因的家。

 

 

此前生活在伊斯兰国的71 000多名妇女、儿童和男子目前被关押在臭名昭著的al-Hol营地。其中，10 100人被关押在一个被称为“附件”的最安全的地区，那里关押着伊斯兰国最铁杆和最忠诚的支持者，他们仍然在监狱里支持一个迷你哈里发。

在al-Hol难民营的主要市场街上，收容了主要从代尔祖尔省巴古兹和哈吉恩抓获的71 000多名伊斯兰国家庭和附属机构成员，当我们进入高度紧张的难民营时，一个没有腿的男孩和他的父亲小心翼翼地看着我们。

 

TRAGIC PHOTOS SHOW CHILD VICTIMS OF TURKEY'S WAR IN SYRIA

Syria's eight-year civil war has claimed up to half a million lives and displaced millions more, devastating a nation and leaving none more vulnerable than its youth, whose suffering will linger long after the guns fall silent.

Striking images obtained by Newsweek tell the story of what life is like for some children in a stretch of Syria once again ravaged by conflict due to a Turkey-backed attack on Kurdish-led forces.

While some theaters of the country's multi-sided conflict have calmed, a new front has opened between Turkey—a NATO nation allied with Syrian insurgents—and Kurdish-led forces that took a top role in the Pentagon's battles against the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). After shifting sides multiple times throughout its intervention in Syria, the United States has sought to sit this particular fight out.

With or without the U.S.' backing, Turkey's decision to invade northern Syria has led to a new humanitarian crisis with children caught right in the center.

"I've seen this so many times covering this region," Thea Pedersen, a Danish freelance journalist currently covering the situation in northeastern Syria, told Newsweek. "No war goes beyond hitting and affecting civilians and first and foremost the children. I've met and made many stories about children — Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan — and they always leave a big heartfelt impact on me."

 

Only a couple of months old, a baby girl lying in a classroom in the Fawar Huly School in Hasakah is now among the estimated more than 130,000 displaced civilians in northeast Syria.

 

 

“Where is my leg? Why do I only have one leg when everybody else has two?” cries only eight- year-old Sara from Qamishlo now tied to a hospital bed. Her house was shelled on the Turkish invasion’s second day in a neighborhood in the de-facto capital of the Rojava-region. Sara not only lost her right leg but also her brother, 13-year-old Mohammed.

 

 

The family of eight-year-old Sara can blame a lot of people for their current situation: The U.S. for withdrawing from Northern Syria. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for pursuing his safety zone. The Western allies for passively watching from a far. But according to Sara’s mother, Nuriman, she only blames one person: Herself, for not evacuating from their house earlier.

 

 

Still in a state of shock and trauma eight-year-old Sara now rarely speaks, doesn’t make eye contact with anyone and doesn’t seem to notice the pink and red teddy bears and golden bracelets neighbors and family brought her in the hospital. Still not aware that her brother Mohammed, 13, was killed, she is only clinging her small hands to a pile of banknotes and her phone as she has disappeared into a world of YouTube-cartoons since the bomb left her one-legged.

 

 

“The Americans betrayed us. They sold us. They made us homeless. What does Erdogan want from us?”, a grandmother holding her granddaughter close, keeps asking us as her family had to flee Ras al-Ayn and is now trying to uphold a decent living in a classroom in the Fawar Huly School in Hasakah.

 

 

Having left their home and village in a rush as the operation of the Turkish wrath took its starting point by shelling the city of Ras al-Ayn, a girl tries to use a worn-out school desk as a means of playing at the Fawar Huly School in Hasakah. Thirty schools in the city have been transformed to shelters for the internally displaced persons.

 

 

“Nothing is clear about our situation now. We are left in the dark. All we want is to return to our home. I don’t care who takes over the city but we cannot return if Erdogan takes Ras al-Ayn, 41-year-old Ibrahim Abdallah ⁠—a worker who fled the city with his wife, two-year-old twin sons and a three-year-old daughter⁠—says from a school-shelter in Hasakah.

 

 

19-year old Jamilah, seen here with one of her sons, along with her 26-year old husband Ahmed Mohammed and their extended family escaped on motorbikes and in cars as the news of the Turkish invasion hit their home in Ras al-Ayn almost simultaneously as the airstrikes.

 

 

More than 71,000 people, women, children and men previous living in the Islamic State, are currently detained in the infamous al-Hol Camp. Of these, 10,100 are held in an area of maximum security called "the Annex" hosting the most hardcore and dedicated ISIS-supporters still upholding a mini-Caliphate behind the bars.

 

 

In the main market-street of al-Hol Camp, hosting more than 71,000 people of ISIS-families and affiliates being captured primarily from Baghouz and Hajiin in Deir Ezzor province, a boy and his father with no legs looks cautiously as we enter the camp of high tensions.