The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

Medics write letter to U.S. president saying a medical facility is attacked every 17 hours by Russian-backed Syrian air force Fifteen of the last 35 doctors in rebel-held eastern Aleppo have written a letter to Barack Obama with an urgent plea for intervention to stop the bombardment of hospitals in the besieged city by the Russian-backed Syrian air force. “We do not need tears or sympathy or even prayers: we desperately need a zone free from bombing over eastern Aleppo to stop the attacks, and international action to ensure Aleppo is never besieged again”, the doctors wrote. [Read more].

• Patrick Wintour, Aleppo doctors urge U.S. intervention as Russians announce daily pause in action, The Guardian, August 11, 2016

A hospital in Aleppo, Syria, after it was hit by airstrikes. Photo: Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters.