MATTERS OF THE WORLD

Nowhere to go: A child sleeps in a bag in the village of Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta, Syria. As the country entered its eighth year of civil war, children and women continued to suffer the most. According to UNICEF, 8.4 million children are affected by the upheavel in Syria. Around 870 children were killed in the war-torn nation between January and September this year — one of the biggest death tolls since the conflict began in 2011. The neighbouring country Turkey hosts maximum Syrian refugees at 3.5 million