Syrian girl tube

This entry has expired. Explore iancowe's photos on Flickr. As the civil war in Syria reaches even newer levels of horror, TIME asked 28 photojournalists to reflect on their most powerful work from the conflict over the last year. Often directly putting their lives at risk, these photographers have recorded agonizing and traumatic moments for the world to see.

By Sophie Tanno For Mailonline. A three-year-old Syrian girl whose father taught her to laugh whenever she hears a bomb fall has safely reached Turkey. Salwa was living in Sarmada, a province in the war-ravaged city of Idlib with her parents when her story touched the hearts of thousands on social media after her father posted a video of the pair laughing as bombs fell around them. Her father, Abdullah Al-Mohammed, 32, came up with the novel way of protecting his daughter from the 'psychological crisis' caused by near-constant explosions. The conflict is thought to have displaced , civilians from the city since December. Idlib province is home to some 3 million people. The Turkish government helped Salwa and her parents cross the border from Syria to Turkey a week after a clip of the father and daughter went viral on social media, it has emerged.

Everything depicted in the video was based on the factual accounts of children in Syria. The video was shot over the course of two days, and combines the second-a-day and photo-a-day video formats, featuring a young girl's life as it progresses from normal to complete chaos in the course of a year. The video features a young British girl experiencing the effects of a hypothetical civil war on the streets of London , by showing a second a day of her life for several days over the span of a year, from one birthday anniversary of hers to the next.

The story begins with Rob Lawrie, a former army fitness instructor and the owner of a carpet business in Leeds. In September the world was shocked by pictures of a Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi, who had drowned in the Mediterranean and been washed up on the shore. There was something about that perfect little body, fully clothed, lying like a piece of flotsam on the sand. The image of a child alone resonated deeply for Rob.