Ambulance driver and paramedic Mohammed Alaa al-Jaleel is known as the Aleppo CatMan. His sanctuary in the rebel-held town of Kfar Naya in the A’zaz District, Aleppo Governorate, Syria looks after 170 cats that were abandoned when their owners fled the war. Photo: Omar Haj Kadour/AFP/Getty Images
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Aleppo, Syria: A resident rides past destroyed buildings as people try to return to normal life a year after the fall of the city. Photo: Susan Schulman/Barcroft Images.
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Aleppo, Syria: Mohammad Mohiedine Anis, 70, smokes his pipe and listens to music in his destroyed bedroom in the formerly rebel-held al-Shaar neighbourhood. Photo: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images.
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Children climb on the rubble of a building in the Jarabulus district of Aleppo, Syria. Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.
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Jo Du had a malfunction with her dress, but Ibrahim Halil Dudu, a master tailor from Aleppo, had just moved in next door
Hours before her wedding ceremony, Jo Du suffered a wardrobe malfunction – the zip on her wedding dress broke and none of her bridesmaids knew how to fix it or where to find a tailor on a Sunday. The wedding photographer, Lindsay Coulter, noticed that the man next door to the house they had rented in Guelph, Ontario, for the wedding had his garage door open and suggested that a bridesmaid run over to ask for a pair of pliers. In a serendipitous turn of events, it emerged that the neighbour, David Hobson, had been hosting a family of Syrian refugees for the past four days and that the father, Ibrahim Halil Dudu, had worked as a tailor in Aleppo for 28 years. [Read more]. |
Ibrahim Halil Dudu fixing the zip on Jo Du’s wedding dress. The Syrian tailor and his family were being hosted by neighbour David Hobson and had only moved in four days previously. Photo: Lindsay Coulter Photography.
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The date for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha is set when a new moon is sighted. Photo: Melanie Maxwell/AP.
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Aleppo, Syria: Syrian men carrying babies make their way through the rubble of destroyed buildings following a reported air strike on the rebel-held Salihin neighbourhood of the northern city of Aleppo. Photo: Ameer Alhalbi/AFP/Getty Images.
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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]. |
A hospital in Aleppo, Syria, after it was hit by airstrikes. Photo: Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters.
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Aleppo, Syria: Children living in a tent city built by a Turkish charity in Azez district near the border. Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.
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Aleppo, Syria: A whirling dervish performs a traditional Sufi dance. Photo: Ammar Abdullah/Reuters.
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