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Musician Roger Waters performs during his Us + Them Tour at Staples Center on June 20, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images/AFP)
April 16, 2018, 5:35 pm
Roger Waters claims Syria’s White Helmets a ‘fake organization’
Echoing Assad regime, Pink Floyd co-founder claims rescue group spreads propaganda for 'jihadists and terrorists'
By TOI staff
This image made from video released by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows medical workers treating toddlers following an alleged poison gas attack in the opposition-held town of Douma, in eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, Syria, April. 8, 2018. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)
April 8, 2018, 11:03 pm
Paris seeks urgent UN Security Council meet on Syria
Nine countries demand decision on alleged chemical attack in Douma as France warns of 'red line' that would prompt strikes
By AFP
A member of a UN chemical weapons investigation team takes samples from sand near Damascus, Syria, August 28, 2013. (AP/United Media Office of Arbeen)
January 22, 2018, 3:55 pm
Syrian activists allege gas attack in Damascus suburb
White Helmets rescuers say 20 civilians affected in suspected chlorine gas attack on Douma district that was reportedly followed by a foul smell
By AP
Secretary of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, Thomas Perlmann (R), announces the winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on October 2, 2017. (AFP PHOTO/Jonathan NACKSTRAND)
October 6, 2017, 10:02 am
Eyes on Iran nuclear deal team ahead of Nobel Peace Prize
Names of nominees not released but some say Syria's White Helmets are top contenders, along with architects of Iran nuclear deal
By AP
From left: EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini; Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif; British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond; and US Secretary of State John Kerry line up for a press announcement at the nuclear talks in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 2, 2015. The sides agreed that month on the framework for the deal they finalized three months later (photo credit: AP/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott)
October 4, 2017, 6:12 am
With nuke threat rising, Iran deal trio seen as Nobel favorites
Peace prize to Kerry, Mogherini and Zarif would be natural choice for peace prize, experts say, though many others also in running
By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES
Members of the Syrian civil defense volunteers, also known as the White Helmets, bury their fellow comrades during a funeral in Sarmin, a jihadist-held town 9 kilometers east of Syria's northwestern city of Idlib on August 12, 2017, after seven were shot dead early in the morning. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)
August 12, 2017, 1:28 pm
Seven ‘White Helmets’ killed in jihadist-held Syria town
Assailants shoot dead members of the local rescue service in a raid on their base near the city of Idlib
By AFP
An unconscious Syrian child is carried at a hospital in Khan Sheikhoun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following a suspected toxic gas attack on April 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadour)
April 5, 2017, 11:18 am
Oh, the inhumanity
Syria's latest chemical weapon incident has the papers discussing Israeli intervention, Obama's failures, and Trump's burden
By Ilan Ben Zion
Illustrative: Syrian civil defense volunteers, known as the White Helmets, search for survivors following a reported government airstrike on the rebel-held neighborhood of Tishrin, on the northeastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, on February 22, 2017. (Msallam Abdalbaset/AFP)
March 17, 2017, 2:15 am
Syrian activists say airstrike on mosque kills at least 35
Strike comes a day after suicide attacks in the capital Damascus kill at least 30 people on sixth anniversary of conflict
By AP
Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, center, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, left, and Russia's Chief of Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov attend a meeting in the Mediterranean coastal city of Antalya, Turkey, Tuesday, March 7, 2017. (Turkish Military, Pool Photo via AP)
March 8, 2017, 12:53 am
Heads of Turkish, US, Russian militaries meet on Syria tensions
Each backs a different side in six-year civil war, raising fears of possible clashes between their forces in war-wracked country
By Bassem Mroue and Suzan Fraser
White House press secretary Sean Spicer talks to the media during the daily press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
February 27, 2017, 2:30 pm
White House condemns ‘cowardly’ cemetery vandalism, threats to Jewish centers
Attorney general upgrades ‘submarines affair’ to full-blown police investigation; Hebron shooting soldier to appeal prison sentence
By TOI staff
(L-R) Actor David Oyelowo, producer Joanna Natasegara and director Orlando von Einsiedel, winners of Best Documentary Short Subject for 'The White Helmets' and actress Salma Hayek pose in the press room during the 89th Oscars on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (AFP PHOTO / FREDERIC J. BROWN)
February 27, 2017, 8:06 am
Short film on Syria’s White Helmets wins Oscar
Group that saved 82,000 lives calls for end to bloodshed; cinematographer blocked from attending award ceremony
By AFP
In this photo posted on August 21, 2014, Syrian civil defense rescuers in white helmets carry one of their comrades during a training session, in Idlib province, northern Syria. (AP/Civil Defense Idlib)
February 19, 2017, 1:11 am
Syria’s White Helmets to travel to US for Oscars
Famed rescuers feared Trump travel ban would keep them away, amid hopes new documentary will draw attention to country's plight
By AFP
Syrians keep warm next to a fire in Aleppo's Fardos neighborhood, after fleeing violence in the restive Bustan al-Qasr neighborhood, on December 13, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/STRINGER)
December 13, 2016, 5:42 pm
Fleeing civilians ‘killed on spot’ as Assad forces advance in Aleppo
While rebels mount last stand, French FM cites reports of 'summary executions' and 'people burned alive in their homes'
By Maya Gebeily
Syrian families, fleeing from various eastern districts of Aleppo, queue to get onto government buses in the government-held eastern neighbourhood of Jabal Badro, November 29, 2016, (AFP/George OURFALIAN)
November 29, 2016, 6:39 pm
UN raises alarm as civilians flee Aleppo assault
Paris demands emergency Security Council meeting as 16,000 people escape regime-rebel clashes
By Karam al-Masri and Sara Hussein
A man reacts following reported airstrikes on Aleppo's rebel-held district of al-Hamra on November 20, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/THAER MOHAMMED)
November 21, 2016, 11:53 pm
Fears for Aleppo civilians as Syria regime advances
UN aid chief says close to one million people now living under siege in country, double the number of six months ago
By Karam al-Masri
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