The war in Syria is a very complicated one, but it is not hard to fathom who will likely be the most affected: women and children.
To show the tragic outcome of this senseless conflict, Bassam Khabieh of Reuters has taken a particularly startling series of photos capturing the aftermath of an airstrike by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Duma last 7 January 2014.
The picture above encapsulates the vulnerability of civilians as their president bombs them in their homes. Other first responders can't help but watch the man rescue a baby who was just baptized by rubble. At the background, a man carries a wounded girl who survived the airstrike.
Duma, nine miles northwest of Damascus, is the largest patch of rebel-held ground near the capital. The suburb of about 200,000 has been bombed almost every day since mid-October 2011.
More than 11,000 children have been killed since March 2011, and the rest live amid destruction.
To show the tragic outcome of this senseless conflict, Bassam Khabieh of Reuters has taken a particularly startling series of photos capturing the aftermath of an airstrike by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Duma last 7 January 2014.
The picture above encapsulates the vulnerability of civilians as their president bombs them in their homes. Other first responders can't help but watch the man rescue a baby who was just baptized by rubble. At the background, a man carries a wounded girl who survived the airstrike.
Duma, nine miles northwest of Damascus, is the largest patch of rebel-held ground near the capital. The suburb of about 200,000 has been bombed almost every day since mid-October 2011.
More than 11,000 children have been killed since March 2011, and the rest live amid destruction.