The Importance of Not Being Arcovazzi

• Justin McCurry, Tom Phillips and Julian Borger, China urges North Korea and U.S. to step back from brink of war, The Guardian, April 14, 2017

Pyongyang, North Korea: People travel on a train, stopping at a station visited by foreign reporters. Photo: Damir Sagolj/Reuters.

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.

We Did Not Die

Douma, Syria: Schoolgirls sit in their classroom at the Saif al-Dawla school as they take part in an art project organised as part of a local initiative to shift the children’s minds from the atrocities of the Syrian war. Photo: Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images.

Welcome to Saif al-Dawla school

Douma, Syria: School girls at Saif al-Dawla school as they take part in activities surrounding an art competition organised to shift the children’s minds from the atrocities of the war. Photo: Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images.