Photos: Syria devastated by civil war, chemical attack
On Tuesday, Syria President Assad unleashed a chemical weapons attack on an already devastated nation.
IDLIB, SYRIA - APRIL 4: (EDITORS NOTE: Image contains graphic content) A wounded man gets treatment after Russian warcrafts allegedly carried out airstrikes at Ravda Mosque and market in Salkin town of Idlib, Syria on April 4, 2017. (Photo by Abdulghani Arian/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Photo by: Anadolu Agency
IDLIB, SYRIA - APRIL 4: Rescue team workers and civilians search for bodies under the rubble after Russian warcrafts allegedly carried out airstrikes at Ravda Mosque and market in Salkin town of Idlib, Syria on April 4, 2017. (Photo by Abdulghani Arian/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Photo by: Anadolu Agency
EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A Syrian child receives treatment at a hospital in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following an attack on April 4, 2017. A suspected chemical attack killed at least 58 civilians including several children in rebel-held northwestern Syria, a monitor said, with the opposition accusing the government and demanding a UN investigation. / AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadour (Photo credit should read OMAR HAJ KADOUR/AFP/Getty Images)Photo by: OMAR HAJ KADOUR
IDLIB, SYRIA - APRIL 4: A child gets treatment at a hospital after Assad Regime forces attacked with suspected chlorine gas to Khan Shaykhun town of Idlib, Syria on April 4, 2017. (Photo by Bahjat Najar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Photo by: Anadolu Agency
A Syrian man is taken by civil defence workers to a small hospital in the town of Maaret al-Noman following a suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhun, a nearby rebel-held town in Syrias northwestern Idlib province, on April 4, 2017. Warplanes carried out a suspected toxic gas attack that killed at least 35 people including several children, a monitoring group said. (MOHAMED AL-BAKOUR/AFP/Getty Images)Photo by: MOHAMED AL-BAKOUR
reduce the effectIDLIB, SYRIA - APRIL 4: Civil defense members try to reduce the effects of chlorine gas with water as they carry out search and rescue works after Assad Regime forces's attack with chlorine gas to Khan Shaykhun town of Idlib, Syria on April 4, 2017. (Photo by Firas Faham/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Photo by: Anadolu Agency
Syrians, who fled their hometown due to the fighting, carry their belongings upon their return to Aleppo's Myassar neighbourhood on April 5, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / George OURFALIAN (Photo credit should read GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images)Photo by: GEORGE OURFALIAN
Protesters hold pictures and Syria's former independence flags (which have been adopted by the rebels forces fighting against Syrian pro-government forces in Syria) during a demonstration to protest against chemical attacks in Syria on April 6, 2017 on the Place de la Republique, in Paris, two days after a suspected chemical attack in the northwestern province of Idlib. An air strike on rebel-held Khan Sheikhun in Idlib's province on April 4, 2017 left scores of civilians dead from a suspected chemical weapons attack. Photo by: LIONEL BONAVENTURE
TRIPOLI, LIBYA - APRIL 5: Sheikh Salem al Rifai speaks as people gather to condemn Assad regime forces' suspected chemical gas attack in the opposition-held Syrian province of Idlib town, in Tripoli, Libya on April 5, 2017. (Photo by Ahmad Al Said /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Photo by: Anadolu Agency