An estimated 250,000 Syrians have been killed and some 11 million have fled the country to escape the civil war* that has now been raging 4½ years. The USA’s limited involvement has made little difference so far, and now Russia has joined in the conflict as well. The map is from Friday’s issue of TIME magazine.
*What’s so ‘civil’ about war anyway?, as Guns’n’Roses noted on their 1993 song ‘Civil War’
