The World Saved by Kids

• Kareem Shaheen, Syrian children return to school as airstrikes on Aleppo continue, The Guardian, October 2, 2016

Children climb on the rubble of a building in the Jarabulus district of Aleppo, Syria. Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.

The Other World

Gaziantep, Turkey: Syrian children wave from a vehicle at the customs gate in the Karkamış district of Gaziantep as they make their way back to Jarabulus, Syria. Photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.

The Sheltering Sky

A woman assesses the damages to her house as a result of shelling between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk on July 19, 2015. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov held separate talks on July 18 with his Ukraine, US and German counterparts, the Kremlin announced, as fighting spikes in eastern Ukraine. Photo: AFP/Aleksey Filippov.