Illustration Captures the Syrian Conflict's Effect on Children

''A photo of a 5-year-old sitting in the back of an ambulance in Aleppo, Syria, has caught the world's attention. Omaran Daqneesh was one of five children hospitalized on Wednesday after an airstrike hit the rebel-held city — it's unclear if the attack was carried out by the Syrian government or its Russian allies.

The stirring image of a child covered in dust and blood spread quickly on social media. It came as a sobering reminder of the five-year conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of more than 470,000 people, including thousands of children, according to the Syrian Center for Policy Research.

Nobody can be sure why this photo generated so much attention — after all, "images of dead and injured children from Syria are shared daily on social media, many of them indescribably more harrowing," The New York Times reports — but it's prompting comparisons to another viral image from the Syrian conflict...''

by Kyle Jaeger

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