The wanton killings never seem to stop. A bomb attack recently on refugees inside their own homeland in Syria led to the ghastly deaths of 68 children in Aleppo. There were haunting visuals of weeping journalists and aid workers working in vain to save at least some of the babies. In the dystopian nightmare that Syria has become, nobody knows for sure who is responsible for this barbaric assault. Earlier this month, about 30 children were slaughtered in a chemical weapons attack. Once again, there is no clinching evidence of who used gas to kill children. More than 17,000 children have died in Syria since the civil war erupted five years ago.

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