TOM CLARK: How is it far, if you think of it?

#Syria aftermath regime airstrike on Tareeq al-Bab neighborhood in #Aleppo photo by Abdo Khuder: image via Putintintin @putintintin1, 17 June 2016

Smoke and flames rose after what fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces said were American-led airstrikes on the mills of Manbij where Islamic State militants are positioned, in Aleppo, Syria, on Thursday: photo by Rodi Said/Reuters, 16 June 2016

Smoke and flame rise after what fighters of the Syria Democratic Forces said were US-led air strikes on the mills of Manbij where Islamic State militants are positioned, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria: photo by Rodi Said / Reuters, 16 June 2016

How is it far, if you think of it?

We will stay constant in the Syrian revolution to overthrow the regime: aleppo: image via baraa al halabi @baraahalabi, 18 June 2016

"Still a young man..."
but the serious, tired eyes

are the eyes of an old man

who has known suffering

and lives in a very unsafe place. We don't want

to feel it but... we all want to be safe. We want to feel

we are good people. But we have our own pain.
We don't want to have to worry too much

about pain in faraway places

among people we think are nothing like us. Distance

means nearly everything to us.
Still...

How is it far, if you think of it?

#Syria: image via Putintintin @putintintin1, 17 June 2016

Child pulled alive from rubble after #Fardos, #Aleppo strikes: image via Olivia Rosenman Verified account @oliviasophierose, 18 June 2016

#Footage - graphic! Just another day of #Assad's and #Putin's war crimes in #Aleppo city: image via Julian Röpcke @JulianRoepcke, 18 June 2016

SYRIA - A fighter from the opposition forces reads the Koran in Teir Maalah during Ramadan. By Mahmoud Taha #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 17 June 2016

SYRIA - Fighters from the Free Syrian Army prepare to break the fast during the Ramadan in Jobar. By @SameerAlDoumy @AFPphoto: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 18 June 2016

SYRIA - Fighters from Syria's Manbij military council try to retake Manbij which is held by IS. By @Delilsouleiman: image via AFP Photo Department @AFP, 16 June 2016

When U.S.-backed forces seized Souad Hamidi's village in northern Syria from Islamic State last week, the 19-year-old swiftly tore off the niqab she had been forced to wear since 2014 and smiled. “I felt liberated,” Hamidi said after swapping her black face-covering veil for a red head scarf. “They made us wear it against our will so I removed it that way to spite them.” For the last two weeks, the Syria Democratic Forces, supported by U.S.-led air strikes, have waged an offensive against the Islamic State-held city of Manbij, near the Syria-Turkey border.: photo by Rodi Said / Reuters, 17 June 2016

SYRIA - Muslim worshippers prepare to break the fast at a mosque during Ramadan in Hamouria. By Amer Almohibany 3AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2016

SYRIA - A fighter from the Free Syrian Army rides his motorbike in Jobar near Dasmacus. By @SameerAlDoumy #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 18 June 2016

Besieged Bereaved Displaced Bombed Sniped Massacred Detained Tortured Raped and starved By Assad and helpers #Syria: image via @RevolutionSyria, 18 June 2016

Another day of burying children under the rubble of their home by #Putin_Assad #Syria: image via @RevolutionSyria, 18 June 2016

A scared but brave kid innocently trying to shelter his sister in his arms to protect from hail of bullets. #Syria: image via @sournsmart, 18 June 2016

aftermath the explosion #Syria #Idlib: image via Putintintin @putintintin1, 18 June 2016

#Syria more pictures after the #RuAF airstrike on New Syrian Army base: image via Putintintin @putintintin1, 18 June 2016

#RuAF used cluster munitions against US-backed New #Syria|n Army near al-Tanef border crossing via Ali Rahabi: image via Putintintin @putintintin1, 18 June 2016

Just look at the non verbal language. This meeting was held in #Syria: image via S.Rifai @THE_47th, 18 June 2016

among people we think are nothing

#Syria #Damascus The children of Darayya suburb - daily hit by dozens of airstrikes: image via Mark @markito0171, 16 June 2016

Just in case the media forgot to mention, there have already been 10 Airstrikes today targeting civilians #Syria: image via leena sahloul @_Leenaaaa, 18 June 2016

A member of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent inspects a site hit by an airstrike in the rebel-controlled city of Idlib, Syria: photo by Ammar Abdullah / Reuters, 15 June 2016

4 comments:

TC19 June 2016 at 02:09
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TC19 June 2016 at 12:44
Turkish border guards kill eight Syrian refugees: Guardian, 19 June 2016

The desperate situation in northern Syria somehow keeps getting worse. Deals of convenience have been done to shield the EU from further waves of migration. Turkey is now closed, refugees are being shot at the border: sixty so far this year, now last night four children, three women, one man. Actual humans all, guilty of not wanting to be blown up and torn into little bits to be ground into rubble and dust.
billoo21 June 2016 at 03:29
Harrowing pictures, Tom. And that line, distance nearly means everything to us, gets to the heart of it.

billoo.
TC23 June 2016 at 02:40
Thank you, my friend. Ah, distance -- was it not once meant to lend enchantment to the view?

Sunday, 19 June 2016

How is it far, if you think of it?

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