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November 9, 2012
8:24 pm

In this Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012 photo, a Syrian man on a motorbike negotiates the price of fuel with a street vendor in the Syrian village of Atmeh, near the Turkish border with Syria. The civil war raging through Syria has battered much of the country's economy, making life harder for poor Syrians who struggled even before the fighting broke out. Those struggles are clear even in places spared large scale destruction, such as Atmeh, which abuts Syria's northern border with Turkey, and other nearby villages. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)

Syria’s war shatters a village economy

A portrait of Atmeh, abutting the northern border, where farmers say they’d be lucky to get 50 cents for olives they’re unable to export

By Khalil Hamra

November 9, 2012
7:56 am

Two Syrian boys who fled with their families from the violence in their village, look on as one holds a toy gun at a displaced persons camp in Atmeh, near the Turkish border with Syria, on Thursday (AP/Khalil Hamra)

Displaced persons camp on Syrian-Turkish border houses mostly children

Atmeh camp, run by rebels, is home to more than 5,000 Syrians blocked from entering Turkey

By Khalil Hamra