'Children Are Eating Leaves Off The Trees': The Nightmare Of The Siege Of Madaya, Syria

Syrian Residents Are Starving To Death Inside Besieged Town
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In the early hours of Sunday morning, a pregnant woman and her daughter tried to sneak out of Madaya, a mountain village perched in the snow-capped mountains of southwestern Syria.

 

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