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Syria's -Pentagon Details Latest Airstrikes by Roosevelt, Coalition Forces

U.S. and coalition military forces, including jets from the future San Diego-based 

Heartbreaking Pictures Show Drowned Refugee Boy Washing Up On Beach

If these extraordinarily powerful images of a dead Syrian child, Just Accept Syrians…

The pictures show a small boy lying face down in the sand on a Turkish beach as an official stands over him.

The child, who is thought to be Syrian, has drowned in an apparent attempt to flee the war ravaging his country.

They are extraordinary images and serve as a stark reminder that, as European leaders increasingly try to prevent refugees from settling in the continent, more and more refugees are dying in their desperation to flee persecution and reach safety.

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Pentagon Details Latest Airstrikes by Roosevelt, Coalition Forces

U.S. and coalition military forces, including jets from the future San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt, continued to attack Islamic terrorists over the weekend.

The Defense Department on Saturday reported 27 strikes against the State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIL or ISIS, in Syria and Iraq.

“Coalition airstrikes continue to protect gains made by partners on the ground while opening up new avenues to further diminish capabilities,” said Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Kevin Killea. “With more than 5,200 strikes in Syria and Iraq since the beginning of the air campaign, the coalition continues to show its commitment to supporting anti-[ISIL] forces.”

The Defense Department reported the following airstrikes:

16 Airstrikes in Syria

• Near Hasakah, eight airstrikes struck an ISIL large tactical unit and five ISIL tactical units destroying three ISIL vehicles, five ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL sniper position and three ISIL motorcycles.
• Near Aleppo, one airstrike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL bunker.
• Near Raqqah, six airstrikes struck five ISIL staging areas and an ISIL personnel carrier destroying an ISIL t-wall and two ISIL excavators.
• Near Kobani, one airstrike destroyed an ISIL fighting position.

11 Airstrikes in Iraq

• Near Huwayjah, one airstrike struck an ISIL large tactical unit and an ISIL rocket position, destroying two ISIL vehicles, an ISIL cache and two ISIL buildings.
• Near Beiji, two airstrikes struck an ISIL tactical unit destroying two ISIL vehicles and an ISIL fuel tanker.
• Near Fallujah, two airstrikes struck an ISIL tactical unit destroying an ISIL rocket rail, an ISIL bunker and an ISIL artillery piece.
• Near Habbaniyah, two airstrikes struck an ISIL large tactical destroying an ISIL rocket launcher, two ISIL vehicles and an ISIL boat.
• Near Makhmur, one airstrike struck an ISIL rocket position.
• Near Ramadi, one airstrike destroyed an ISIL structure.
• Near Sinjar, one airstrike struck an ISIL large tactical unit, destroying two ISIL vehicles and four ISIL buildings.
• Near Tal Afar, one airstrike struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed an ISIL tunnel.

Coalition nations conducting the airstrikes include the United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Jordan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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Nothing's Real But Love

Standing in a line

Wonder why it don't move

Tryna get a hand

Watching people break the rules

Maybe the man in charge, doesn't like my face

But then as real not a always good

And nothing's real but love

Nothing's real but love

No money, no house, no car, can beat love...

The roar just opened light

As it don't grand like blues

See who can be the waste

Watch what I can do

But then the door gets slammed, slammed right in my face

And I guess this world not always good

And nothing's real but love

Nothing's real but love

No house, no car, no job, can beat love...

It won't fill you up

No money, no house, no car, is like love...

La la la la la la

Yeaaah

I put it all away

Holding it down for a rainy day

But wouldn't that day will come

I need love

No money, no house, no car, is like love...

It don't fill you up

It won't build you up

It won't fill you up

It's not love!

And nothing's real but love

No money, no house, no car, is like love...

Nothing's real but love

No money, no house, no car, is like love....

Nada É Real Além do Amor

Parada em uma fila

Me pergunto por que ela não se move

Tentando conseguir uma ajuda

Observando as pessoas quebrarem as regras

Talvez o responsável não goste do meu rosto

Mas, então, a realidade nem sempre é boa

E não nada é real além do amor

Nada é real além do amor

Nem dinheiro, nem casa, nem carro, podem superar o amor...

O barulho acaba de acender a luz

Não tão nobre como blues

Veja quem pode ser a sobra

Veja o que eu posso fazer

Mas então a porta é fechada, fechada bem na minha cara

E eu acho que este mundo nem sempre é bom

E nada é real além do amor

Nada é real além do amor

Nem dinheiro, nem casa, nem carro, pode superar o amor...

Não vai encher você

Nem o dinheiro, nem casas, nem carros, é como o amor...

La la la la la la

Yeaaah

Eu deixo tudo de lado

Aguardando por um dia chuvoso

Mas ainda que esse dia não venha

Eu preciso do amor

Nem o dinheiro, nem casas, nem carros, é como o amor...

Não preenche você

Não irá sustentar você

Não irá preencher você

Não é o amor!

E nada é real além do amor

Nem dinheiro, nem casa, nem carro, é como o amor...

Nada é real além do amor

Nem o dinheiro, nem casa, nem carro, é como o amor...

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Syria's children deserve chance to be kids again

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• UNICEF Ambassador Lucy Liu visited Syrian refugees in Lebanon
• Each day thousands of Syrians flee into the country, half are children
• UNICEF needs $172 million to provide clean water, schools, health care and nutrition

Editor's note: A UNICEF ambassador since 2004, Lucy Liu recently traveled to the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon to visit children made homeless by the conflict in neighboring Syria. According to UNICEF, thousands of Syrians flee into Lebanon each day, half of them children. The country hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, and although it has kept its borders open, it won't permit formal refugee camps.

Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (CNN) -- In my nine years as a UNICEF ambassador, I've been to camps for people displaced by conflict. Though hardly luxurious, they usually have some kind of structure: a water source, latrines, even schools.

Lebanon, even the most 

basic services are hard to come by as the small country staggers from the flow of refugees from its larger neighbor. The places I saw had no toilets, no clean water sources, no places to shower and no areas for cooking. Cases of painful scabies, lice and fleas are on the rise.

I met mothers and children who have witnessed unspeakable acts of violence, including the death of loved ones. Often arriving in Lebanon with no more than the clothes on their backs, moms are trying to hold their families together with no idea how they will feed, clothe or shelter their traumatized kids.

Many of these refugees lived a middle-class life in Syria, where they had homes, jobs, electricity and plumbing.

Visit UNICEF's website to find out how you can help

A woman refugee holds her son outside a tent shelter in a makeshift encampment in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon.

A woman prepares a meal outdoors in a makeshift refugee camp in Lebanon.

Refugee children in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

Now, their savings have dwindled and many of them are dependent on the generosity and hospitality of strangers. They are living in tents constructed from discarded objects such as burlap sacks and plastic sheets. They might rent land from a farmer or squat in an abandoned construction site. These new "homes" leave them exposed to all sorts of dangers, respiratory infections and other diseases. And because there are no official camps, people are scattered, which makes identifying the informal settlement sites extremely challenging.

We traveled to a cement factory, where some Syrian mothers were renting tiny rooms to house their entire families. I noticed one young girl who had dull, patchy skin. Her eyes sparkled and she was quick to smile, but her hair, eyebrows and lashes were sparse. When I asked about what happened, I was told that she became ill after playing in the factory's toxic waste.

Since January, the number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon has increased nearly six-fold. More than a million people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid.

Considering Lebanon has a population of 4 million people, this is a crisis of epic scale that is putting enormous strain on local communities.

According to UNICEF, there are more than 270,000 refugee children who are not in school in the country; by the end of the year, the number could exceed 400,000. Some of them have missed out on more than a year of learning. Syrian children can enroll in public schools in Lebanon as long as there is space, but many schools are already at capacity.

In the United States, much of the discussion about Syria has been focused on politics. But for the kids I met, and millions more like them all across the region, politics is the farthest thing from their minds.

Despite bearing no responsibility for the violence, children are paying the heaviest price for the conflict. They desperately need water, medical attention, sanitation, psychological support and the opportunity to receive an education, but there are simply not enough resources to alleviate suffering.

In spite of the enormity of the crisis, funding for lifesaving aid is in short supply.

UNICEF still needs $172 million this year to assist Syrian refugees across the region, which means programs to support these children are threatened. Clean water, schools, health care and nutrition are all at risk.

I was overwhelmed by the deprivation and trauma the children we met have endured. But they rushed up to us with kisses and hugs, asking only for the chance to go to school. They deserve that chance.

What's at stake is an entire generation of children who are carrying the emotional and physical scars of war. Time is running out for them. They need our help to stay alive, to go to school and to be kids again.

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