Syria

Syria’s Largest City is Flooded with Wounded

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Dr. Osman al-Haj Osman's face was etched with exhaustion from only three hours of sleep as more injured and wounded pour into the hospital. A man comes bursting in bearing the shrieking 6-year-old girl with  bullet wounds through both her knees.  As Aleppo continues into the second month of battle, civilians are still bearing the brunt of the daily assaults of helicopter gunships, roaring jets and troops fighting in the streets.

Read it at Oakland Tribune


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