In news on Syria, a viral image of a five-year-old boy who survived a Syrian government airstrike is once more drawing international attention to the plight of civilians there. The photo shows the boy, Omran Daqneesh, caked in dust and blood. He sits alone in the back of an ambulance, staring directly ahead in shock. The boy lives in Aleppo, where the Syrian government and rebels are involved in a fierce battle for control of Syria’s largest city. Some have pointed out that last year a picture of a dead two-year-old Syrian boy on a Turkish beach garnered widespread attention and outrage but did not result in any changes. Alan Kurdi died while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea with his family, but the number of deaths of refugees on the Mediterranean this year has increased significantly from last year.