Every so often Leila Bitar slips out of Altinozu Camp and across the border from Turkey into Syria to visit the grave of her son. A 30-year-old fighter in the Free Syrian Army, he died in battle eight months ago in Latakia, in north-west Syria. Leila unzips a little pink purse attached to her belt and fishes out a passport photograph of a young man. Two of her seven remaining children are fighting on-they come to the camp every fortnight or so for a few days' rest-but their brother's picture has already begun to fade and crease.
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