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White Helmet volunteers search for survivors at a site reportedly hit with a barrel bomb in the Al-Shaar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on September 17, 2015.

With Aleppo under siege, the city’s ‘White Helmet’ volunteers pull bodies from rubble day after day

Conflict

In the aftermath of airstrikes, civilians in Aleppo organize to find the injured.In the aftermath of airstrikes, civilians in Aleppo organize to find the injured.

A girl and her brother shelter in a cave during an air raid in the Nuba mountains of Sudan in 2012.

Doctors become targets in Sudan’s forgotten wars

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