So the world has been in a lot of upheaval as of late. With earthquakes, the Presidential campaign, the death of Prince (among other celebrities) but Syria still hasn’t quelled the violence within its borders.
Yesterday, an airstrike on a pediatric hospital in Syria killed at least 27 people. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the attack and pointed a finger of blame at the Syrian government. "We are outraged by yesterday's airstrikes in Aleppo on the al Quds hospital supported by both Doctors Without Borders and the International Committee of the Red Cross, which killed dozens of people, including children, patients and medical personnel," he said in a statement. "It appears to have been a deliberate strike on a known medical facility and follows the Assad regime's appalling record of striking such facilities and first responders. These strikes have killed hundreds of innocent Syrians."
Reminder: Syria has been going through a violent civil war for five years. If you don’t know pretty much anti-government protests broke out and President Assad didn’t like that. These protests lead to massive amounts of torture and killing to ANYONE that did not agree with Assad prompting two different factions of people.
There's obviously Team Assad, backed by Russia. And Team moderate rebels, backed by the US and friends. Earlier this year, both sides got together and tried — for the millionth time — to work things out. The talks ended in a ceasefire, which kinda sorta worked for a while. Then yesterday, an airstrike hit a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the key city of Aleppo. It looks like Assad's forces were behind the strike. This comes after a U.S. airstrike mistakenly hit a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan last year. Yesterday's violence is especially bad news for Syria, because not only is a badly-needed hospital destroyed, but it looks like the ceasefire is over too.
With that said, that leads the world wondering what's going to happen now? Will both sides be at a disadvantage because they lost a critical building? How does the UN plan to mediate the violence since the ceasefire is now over? Will our up and coming new President (whoever that may be) step up and try and take control, or sit back and observe?
Only time will tell and hopefully things will turn out for the better.
