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Trash doll | Madison, Wisconsin: photo by Jenny Beatty, 20 April 2017
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood | A scene from a Detroit neighborhood: photo by Desolate Places, 18 March 2010
lady on the garden swing |gemütlichkeit: photo by sinnen, 10 May 2015
lady on the garden swing |gemütlichkeit: photo by sinnen, 10 May 2015
lady on the garden swing |gemütlichkeit: photo by sinnen, 10 May 2015
And Then He Turned His Back On His Family [Monessen, PA]: photo by David Grim, 31 January 2016
And Then He Turned His Back On His Family [Monessen, PA]: photo by David Grim, 31 January 2016
And Then He Turned His Back On His Family [Monessen, PA]: photo by David Grim, 31 January 2016
Updates from #EasternGhouta: more than 70 martyrs only today by the #Russian death tool. And hundreds of injured. Apart from the continuous shelling over north #Syria killing more and more every day.: image via Zouhir_AlShimale @ZouhirAlShimale, 6 February 2018
#Syria: At least 40 civilians killed, 200 wounded in multiple heavy Russian and regime airstrikes across rebel-held parts of Eastern-Ghouta since this morning.: tweet via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
Just keep looking at these pictures of bloodied and shocked Syrian civilians who survived today’s heavy airstrikes on their homes in Eastern Ghouta. In the meantime, the bombing campaign is still going on. It’s getting worse by the minute.: image via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
Just keep looking at these pictures of bloodied and shocked Syrian civilians who survived today’s heavy airstrikes on their homes in Eastern Ghouta. In the meantime, the bombing campaign is still going on. It’s getting worse by the minute.: image via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
Just keep looking at these pictures of bloodied and shocked Syrian civilians who survived today’s heavy airstrikes on their homes in Eastern Ghouta. In the meantime, the bombing campaign is still going on. It’s getting worse by the minute.: image via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
#Syria: Death toll of the ongoing Russian and regime bombing campaign on the rebel-held cities and towns in Eastern-Ghouta, Damascus has risen to at least 55 since this morning.: tweet via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
This is what Assad and Putin’s war on terror means.: image via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
It’s not a war on terrorism. It’s a war of terrorism. How do people become so ignorant that they completely ignore what’s really going on there? Whatever the reason, the world has repeatedly failed in its promise of ‘never again’. And it’s still failing.: tweet via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
The number of victims so far in the Eastern Ghouta (78):
How much of this world is unjust ... terrorism Russian and Assad regime are still killing children and civilians in #Eastern Ghouta near Damascus #ChildrenUnderAttack: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 6 February 2018
One of the most difficult things a human can go through To come and find your house destroyed. Said, one of the Syrian "civil defense" volunteers during the ambulance of his 3-month-old son, Ibrahim, after an air strike targeting his house in Saqba in#Eastern Ghouta: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 6 February 2018
Fresh regime strikes on a besieged rebel-held enclave near Damascus killed 35 civilians on Tuesday despite mounting Western pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
A Syrian boy holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant at a makeshift hospital in Eastern Ghouta where three reported chlorine attacks have occurred in recent weeks: photo by HASAN MOHAMED / AFP, 5 February 2018
In Idlib, the last province in the country to largely escape government control, daily fighting is also claiming an growing human toll and displacing thousands.
"These reports are extremely troubling, and make a mockery of the so-called 'de-escalation zones' intended to protect civilians from such bombardment," said Paulo Pinheiro, chair of the Commission.
There was no immediate comment from the regime or any of the other belligerents on the UN's appeal.
Trash doll | Madison, Wisconsin: photo by Jenny Beatty, 20 April 2017
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood | A scene from a Detroit neighborhood: photo by Desolate Places, 18 March 2010
lady on the garden swing |gemütlichkeit: photo by sinnen, 10 May 2015
lady on the garden swing |gemütlichkeit: photo by sinnen, 10 May 2015
lady on the garden swing |gemütlichkeit: photo by sinnen, 10 May 2015
And Then He Turned His Back On His Family [Monessen, PA]: photo by David Grim, 31 January 2016
And Then He Turned His Back On His Family [Monessen, PA]: photo by David Grim, 31 January 2016
And Then He Turned His Back On His Family [Monessen, PA]: photo by David Grim, 31 January 2016
Untitled [Danforth Ave, Riverdale, Toronto]: photo by Dominic Bugatto, 7 March 2015
today 55 Syrian civilians; men, women and children, killed by airstrikes attacks executed by Russian and Syrian warplanes in Eastern #Ghouta more than 100 injured and dozens people still stuck under their own home rubble.: image via Mohammad Homms @mhd_abokamal, 6 February 2018
More than 70 people were killed Today in The besieged #EasternGhoutaunder bombing! By Assad regime and its allies of Russians and Iranians 70 lives! 70 stories! 70 griefs! 70 empty spaces in the souls of 70 families!: image via Lina shamy @linashamy, 6 February 2018
Updates from #EasternGhouta: more than 70 martyrs only today by the #Russian death tool. And hundreds of injured. Apart from the continuous shelling over north #Syria killing more and more every day.: image via Zouhir_AlShimale @ZouhirAlShimale, 6 February 2018
Updates from #EasternGhouta: more than 70 martyrs only today by the #Russian death tool. And hundreds of injured. Apart from the continuous shelling over north #Syria killing more and more every day.: image via Zouhir_AlShimale @ZouhirAlShimale, , 6 February 2018
Updates from #EasternGhouta: more than 70 martyrs only today by the #Russian death tool. And hundreds of injured. Apart from the continuous shelling over north #Syria killing more and more every day.: image via Zouhir_AlShimale @ZouhirAlShimale, , 6 February 2018
#Syria: At least 40 civilians killed, 200 wounded in multiple heavy Russian and regime airstrikes across rebel-held parts of Eastern-Ghouta since this morning.: tweet via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
Just keep looking at these pictures of bloodied and shocked Syrian civilians who survived today’s heavy airstrikes on their homes in Eastern Ghouta. In the meantime, the bombing campaign is still going on. It’s getting worse by the minute.: image via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
Just keep looking at these pictures of bloodied and shocked Syrian civilians who survived today’s heavy airstrikes on their homes in Eastern Ghouta. In the meantime, the bombing campaign is still going on. It’s getting worse by the minute.: image via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
Just keep looking at these pictures of bloodied and shocked Syrian civilians who survived today’s heavy airstrikes on their homes in Eastern Ghouta. In the meantime, the bombing campaign is still going on. It’s getting worse by the minute.: image via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
This is what Assad and Putin’s war on terror means.: image via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
It’s not a war on terrorism. It’s a war of terrorism. How do people become so ignorant that they completely ignore what’s really going on there? Whatever the reason, the world has repeatedly failed in its promise of ‘never again’. And it’s still failing.: tweet via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
#Syria: Death toll of today’s heavy Russian and regime bombing campaign on the rebel-held cities and towns in Eastern-Ghouta, Damascus has risen to at least 78.: tweet via Sakir Khader @sakirkhader, 6 February 2018
Give us your opinion?: image via belal kharpotly @belalkh16, 6 February 2018
The number of victims so far in the Eastern Ghouta (78):
#Douma 28
#Arbin 13
#Kafr_Batna 7
#Zmalka 6
#Mesraba 5
#Hamouriyah 4
#Saqba 4
#Madyara 4
#Haza 3
#Jobar 3
#Harasta 1
#GhoutaGMC 1
: image via Ali Husni Naief @Ghouta, 6 February 2018
SYRIA - More deadly regime strikes as Syria toll mounts Photo @amer_almohibany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 February 2018
How much of this world is unjust ... terrorism Russian and Assad regime are still killing children and civilians in #Eastern Ghouta near Damascus #ChildrenUnderAttack: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 6 February 2018
Until now, 39 civilians dead as a result of intensive Russian and Assad's regime air strikes on cities in #Eastern Ghouta near the capital of Damascus ... i can't describe what happened ... is it a stop this massacres??!!!: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 6 February 2018
One of the most difficult things a human can go through To come and find your house destroyed. Said, one of the Syrian "civil defense" volunteers during the ambulance of his 3-month-old son, Ibrahim, after an air strike targeting his house in Saqba in#Eastern Ghouta: image via Amer_almohibany @amer_almohibany, 6 February 2018
BREAKING: Death toll from #Syria regime air strikes on #EasternGhouta near Damascus rises to 47: monitor @AFP: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobeirut, 6 February 2018
SYRIE: Suite tirs de roquettes meurtriers sur #Damas aujourd'hui (3 morts), le Lycée français Charles de Gaulle ferme ses portes jusqu'à dimanche pour 'raisons de sécurité' @afpfr: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobeirut, 6 February 2018
SYRIE: Bilan des frappes syriennes aujourd'hui sur la #Ghouta orientale: au moins 35 morts et plus de 100 blessés @afpfr #Syrie: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobeirut, 6 February 2018
SYRIA: Death toll from air strikes on #EasternGhoutatoday rises to 33: monitor @AFP #Syria #Damascus @AFP: image via Jean-Marc Mpjon @mojobeirut, 6 February 2018
More deadly regime strikes as Syria toll mounts: AFP News, 6 February 2018
Fresh regime strikes on a besieged rebel-held enclave near Damascus killed 35 civilians on Tuesday despite mounting Western pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The bloodshed came a day after another 31 civilians were killed in Eastern Ghouta and as the United Nations pleaded for a truce in the seven-year-old conflict to allow for aid deliveries.
Fighting also raged in the northwestern province of Idlib, where the UN said the violence "made a mockery" of the de-escalation zones agreed last year in a bid to pave the way for an end to the war.
The latest casualties in Ghouta, on paper also a de-escalation zone, came as Washington threatened military action over the reported use of chemical weapons in the enclave, which regime and allied forces have besieged since 2013.
The death toll rose from an initial report of 16 "because the strikes are continuing -- some new victims died in Douma and some critically wounded people died of their wounds," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman added that few rebels were among the dead because they rarely left their tunnels and had better protection from air strikes than civilians, estimated to number around 400,000 in Ghouta.
In apparent retaliation, rockets were fired on Damascus's Bab al-Touma neighbourhood, killing three civilians, the state news agency SANA reported.
Increase in violence
Although less deadly, regime attacks involving suspected chlorine-filled munitions on Ghouta have also been on the up in recent weeks.
The US State Department said on Monday it had recorded six suspected chemical attacks in Syria in the past 30 days.
Washington, which last year launched cruise missiles on a regime airfield in retaliation for a nerve agent attack in Khan Sheikhun that killed scores of people, has threatened more military action.
A Syrian boy holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant at a makeshift hospital in Eastern Ghouta where three reported chlorine attacks have occurred in recent weeks: photo by HASAN MOHAMED / AFP, 5 February 2018
France last month blacklisted companies and nationals it said had links to Syria's alleged chemical programme.
US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley clashed with her Russian counterpart at a meeting of the Security Council on Monday after proposing a statement condemning Damascus "in the strongest terms".
Russia, Assad's main backer, retorted that "no perpetrators have been identified" and accused the United States of orchestrating a "propaganda campaign" against the Syrian government.
The UN said it was looking into the reports of chemical attacks and condemned what it described as an escalation in violence in Ghouta and Idlib.
Plea for aid truce
"Over the last 48 hours, the scale and ferocity of attacks has increased dramatically," the UN-mandated Independent International Commission of Inquiry said in a statement.
In Idlib, the last province in the country to largely escape government control, daily fighting is also claiming an growing human toll and displacing thousands.
The UN commission said at least three hospitals were hit in recent strikes and shelling.
"These reports are extremely troubling, and make a mockery of the so-called 'de-escalation zones' intended to protect civilians from such bombardment," said Paulo Pinheiro, chair of the Commission.
After talks in Russia and Austria last month failed to yield a breakthrough, the UN's humanitarian coordinator and top envoys in Syria issued a statement in Damascus Tuesday calling for a month-long truce.
The measure would "enable the delivery of humanitarian aid and services, evacuation of the critically sick and wounded, and alleviation of people's suffering, to the extent possible, wherever they are," the UN said.
The UN said existing agreements on the delivery of aid were not being honoured and stressed that "if access was granted, three convoys could be dispatched each week, reaching over 700,000 people in these areas in two months."
While the fighting is abating in some parts of the country, the humanitarian crisis is still in full swing and aid groups predict a further 1.5 million people will be displaced in 2018.
There was no immediate comment from the regime or any of the other belligerents on the UN's appeal.
GAZA STRIP - Palestinians take part in a protest against the US move to freeze funding for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) at the Rafah refugee camp. Photo @saidkhatib #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 February 2018
GAZA CITY - A Palestinian child holds a poster during a protest against the siege on the Gaza Strip. Photo @mohmdabed #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 6 February 2018
Collateral Damage |San Francisco, 2000: photo by Mark Pedersen, 21 September 2013
Collateral Damage |San Francisco, 2000: photo by Mark Pedersen, 21 September 2013
Collateral Damage |San Francisco, 2000: photo by Mark Pedersen, 21 September 2013
Collateral Damage |San Francisco, 2000: photo by Mark Pedersen, 21 September 2013
Collateral Damage |San Francisco, 2000: photo by Mark Pedersen, 21 September 2013
Collateral Damage |San Francisco, 2000: photo by Mark Pedersen, 21 September 2013