The image of a 4-year-old girl staring into the camera with a penetrating glare, her face wrapped entirely in white bandages, captures the agony of Iraqis after the country struggles to recover from a horrific bombing that killed close to 300 people, many of them burned to death.
Asal Ahmed, the girl in the picture, was with her family at the time of the blast, and she and her mother were badly burned. In the photo, she's carried by her father. It is not known whether her mother survived the attack.
Daesh has been weakened in Iraq and Syria in recent months because of battlefield losses and desertions, and some analysts have suggested that the group is in danger of losing its so-called caliphate, territory controlled by the group that stretches from eastern Syria to western Iraq
source : hawzahnews
