This story appears in the March 2014 issue of National Geographic ... of 2013, Syria’s bloody and complex civil war had displaced some nine million men, women, and children (view map).

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Iran and Turkey — and global powers like the United States and Russia have fought for influence in Syria. The country occupies a key geographical crossroads for the entire Middle East.