In the news: Al-Assad admits toll on children and Habib Haddad’s cartoon

Recently, the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad’s gave a rare interview in which he admitted the huge toll of the conflict in Syria on children, saying that “Children are the most fragile link in any society and unfortunately they often pay the heaviest price in any conflict.” (Read more on syriacomment) Against that backdrop, it seems appropriate to translate Habib Haddad’s 2-27 cartoon published online in Al Hayat:

Cartoon reads: “More than 5000 Syrian children martyred in two years.”