Syrian crisis: ‘A choice between bread and masks’

 Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. He has been with The Independent since 1990.

Syrian crisis: ‘A choice between bread and masks’
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A girl carries jerry cans to fill them with water inside a school building in Hasakeh, where Syrians displaced from Ras Al-Ain, are staying. Agence France-Presse