(AP-Washington Post) Researcher Xi Li has watched Syria's civil war unfold through nighttime satellite imagery, as 83% of the country's lights have gone out. A visiting scholar at the University of Maryland's Department of Geographic Sciences, Li said 97% of the lights in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, have gone out. Even the capital, Damascus, is 35% dimmer. In Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State, 96% of the lights are out.
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