As Turkey’s Afrin Offensive Drags on, Civilians Have no Place to Run

One-month-old Heyim Hassan was receiving treatment for a chest infection in the Afrin general hospital in northern Syria when a shell landed a few meters (feet) away. His panicked father whisked him out of the building and spent hours looking for nebulizers to aid the infant’s breathing. No one was killed in the attack, but 30 children had to be evacuated to safety. It was the third time Heyim’s father, Serbest, had to seek shelter for his family in the last month. Four days after the...

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