Photographs: Yousef Albostany/Reuters
Peace seems to have sunk in a quagmire of conflicts.
Out of the world's population of over 7 billion, 1.6 million annually fall victim to bombings and other acts of terror while nearly 50 million languish in refugee camps. Globally, more than nine people die every minute from injuries or violence.
From Syria to Iraq to Central Africa, the bloodshed continues unabated. The ongoing conflict between Israel and Gaza and the recent shooting down of the Malaysian Airlines flight in Ukraine by pro-Russia rebels has left the world shell shocked.
Here are photographs from conflict zones around the world. If you don’t have the stomach for it, do not go further.
We start off with this photograph of a resident carrying a wounded child injured by what activists claim was a car explosion in central Douma, eastern al-Ghouta, near Damascus on July 19.
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Photographs: Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters
Netream Netzleam holds the body of her daughter Razel, 1, who medics said died on Friday from injuries sustained in an Israeli air strike on Thursday afternoon, at her funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip
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Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
A boy gestures in front of a barricade on fire during a protest after French troops opened fire at protesters blocking a road in Bambari, Central African Republic May 22, 2014.
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Photographs: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters
A sick internally displaced Muslim girl sits next to her mother in a house in the town of Boda, Central African Republic
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Photographs: Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters
A body lies on the ground close to the site of Thursday's Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash near the settlement of Grabovo, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine.
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Photographs: Ako Rasheed/Reuters
Women react at the site of a car bomb attack in the town of Tuz Khurmato, north of Iraqi capital Baghdad
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Photographs: Feisal Omar/Reuters
Somali government soldiers evacuate their colleague, who was injured during a clash with Al shabaab militia, outside the Parliament in the capital Mogadishu
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Photographs: Mandel Ngan/Pool/Reuters
An aerial view shows the Zaatari refugee camp, near the Jordanian city of Mafraq. The camp holds roughly 115,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan about 12 km (eight miles) from the Syrian border.
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Photographs: Andrew Biraj/Reuters
A woman stands amid the remnants of her house which was burnt following a communal clash at Mirpur area in Dhaka
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Photographs: Mohamed al-Sayaghi/Reuters
A boy stands near a destroyed armoured vehicle on a road in the northwestern province of Omran
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Photographs: Hosam Katan/Reuters
A man reacts amid debris after what activists said were explosive barrels thrown by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Al-Shaar neighbourhood of Aleppo.
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Photographs: Hamid Khatib/Reuters
A man carrying a child runs out of a burning building at a site hit by what activists said were barrel bombs dropped by forces of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo's al-Shaar district
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Photographs: Hosam Katan/Reuters
Men rescue a boy from under the rubble after what activists said was explosive barrels dropped by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Al-Shaar neighbourhood of Aleppo
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Photographs: Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters
Thayakorn Yosubon, the father of a pair of siblings killed in a bomb blast near an anti-government protest site, mourns as he hold a photograph of his children during their funeral at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok.
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Photographs: Reuters
A woman cries over the covered bodies of her son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild at the site where a man was suspected of deliberately ramming his vehicle into pedestrians in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China
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Photographs: Hosam Katan/Reuters
A boy holds his baby sister saved from under rubble, who survived what activists say was an airstrike by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Masaken Hanano in Aleppo
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Photographs: Fayaz Aziz/Reuters
Rescue worker comfort a man over the death of his brother who died in a grenade attack at the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan
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Photographs: Andreea Campeanu/Reuters
A boy rests on a wheelchair from wounds sustained in a grenade attack, at the Complex Paediatric Hospital in Bangui. Violence in Central African Republic has uprooted nearly a million people, a fifth of the population, and is hampering aid efforts, particularly in the capital Bangui.
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Photographs: Reuters
The wrapped bodies of two dead people hang from an overpass as three more dead bodies lie on the ground in Saltillo, Mexico. The five people were killed by the Mexican mafia
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Photographs: Dado Ruvic/Reuters
A Bosnian Muslim man cries near where 175 coffins of newly identified victims from the 1995 Srebrenica massacre are placed, in Potocari Memorial Center, near Srebrenica. Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Ratko Mladic killed up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys. The remains of 175 identified victims were found in some 60 mass graves around the town.
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