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Afrin, Syria

A man walks past the statue of Kawa, the blacksmith who was a central figure in a Kurdish legend about the new year celebration of Noruz, after Ankara-backed forces destroyed it. Tens of thousands of people were displaced by the Turkish-led assault on the Afrin region, whose small towns and villages were home to mostly Syrian Kurds.
Photograph: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images