On one side of Syria's civil war, a man in army fatigues carried a lifeless child's ashen body from the rubble of a shattered building in the government-held city of Hama.
The disaster has compounded misery in a country where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in a conflict that began in 2011 when protests against President Bashar al-Assad's rule were met with a deadly crackdown.
With millions uprooted by the war, the United Nations says humanitarian needs are today greater than ever, even though the main frontlines have been frozen for several years. With U.N.-backed diplomacy going nowhere, Syria remains deeply divided. "On top of displacement from our towns and after we finally found homes there is now another displacement," said Haboush, who fled from Damascus at the height of the conflict.
In the mountains above Latakia near Assad's hometown, residents said several buildings had collapsed and there were many dead. Russian troops, civil defence and government forces assisted in a swift relief effort, two residents said.
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