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Omran Daqneesh’s Face Can’t Fix a War

THE FACE OF BATTLE

He is 5 years old and has a name: Omran Daqneesh. People are reacting to his image as they did a year ago to the boy washed up on a beach. And then?

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This child did not die but he’s become a tocsin for the tens of thousands who have and will continue to do so.

Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh sits in the seat of a volunteer ambulance, covered in a paste of gray ash, soot, and his own blood, his left eye nearly swollen...

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