On 7 January, Syria was hit by a fierce winter storm, forcing the lucky ones to stay inside their homes, while the unlucky had to find shelter where they could. Although the storm placed lives of refugees and the displaced at risk, fighters in Syria swapped grenades for snowballs. And so, for the first time in three years, no-one died from the violence of Syria's civil war.

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A boy carries firewood as he makes his way through snow in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus Badra Mamet/Reuters
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Civilians and members of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent play with snow in the Duma neighbourhood of Damascus Badra Mamet/Reuters
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A man carries bags of vegetables as he makes his way through snow in the Duma neighbourhood Badra Mamet/Reuters
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A boy walks past a snowman along a road covered with snow in the Duma neighborhood Badra Mamet/Reuters
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Children look at faces made out of snow placed on a car during a winter storm in the Duma neighborhood Badra Mamet/Reuters
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Men walk along a street during snowfall in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus Badra Mamet/Reuters
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A man holds an umbrella as he makes his way through a road covered with snow in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus Bassam Khabieh/Reuters
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Children warm themselves around a fire in al-Sukari neighborhood of Aleppo Hosam Katan/Reuters
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Tthe Duma neighborhood of Damascus covered in snow on January 8 Bassam Khabieh/Reuters
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A cemetery in a rebel-held area of Aleppo, the day after the storm Hamid Khatib/Reuters
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