American Medical Society

A senior UN official says he fears children waiting to be evacuated from the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near the Syrian capital, Damascus, are being used as bargaining chips, according to BBC. 

The UN's humanitarian co-ordinator, Jan Egeland, told the BBC he believed that rebels had agreed to free government workers in exchange for the children.

A video of a hurt baby who clung on to the nurse treating him in Syria has gone viral. Refusing to let go, a blood-soaked baby boy in Syria desperately clings to a nurse beside his brother after their house was hit by a devastating airstrike. This is the truly heartbreaking reality of Aleppo, captured on camera at a hospital in the bombed-out city.