Photos: Children in Syria’s war

Children wash in and collect water from a pool in an Aleppo neighborhood where the water had been cut off.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

A child chases a cat, unseen, down a street in an Aleppo neighborhood left almost entirely deserted because of Syrian government barrel bombings.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Children water their father’s grave in hopes of getting more of the yellow flowers to bloom there.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Boys supervise a barrel full of a rice mixture as one of their neighbors gets his free share in Aleppo.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Two government barrel bombs leave an Aleppo building badly damaged.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

A man cooks kebabs in Aleppo, Syria.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

A makeshift gas station is set up in Aleppo, Syria.  (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)

Men check out a bomb-damaged vehicle in Aleppo, Syria.   (Raja Abdulrahim / Los Angeles Times)