For a few fleeting moments, scores of people worldwide knew the face and name of the young Syrian boy in the ambulance. In it, a rescue worker carried the boy, Omran Daqneesh, out of the rubble where his house once stood, plopping him down on an orange seat in the back of an ambulance. Meanwhile, Omran’s family was stuck in a war with no end in sight, in a city recaptured by the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In those interviews, Omran’s father, Mohamad Kheir Daqneesh, repeatedly accused rebel parties of using his son’s images as propaganda against the government. “I am Omran Daqneesh,” he told an interviewer with a Russian news outlet.

Source: Washington Post June 07, 2017 10:20 UTC