Out of Syria’s devastation, ‘The White Helmets’ offer moments of hope The daily destruction of Syria's civil war is at once shocking and now strangely familiar. The Oscar-nominated ...

A documentary about The Syrian Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, won an Oscar at the 2017 Academy Awards. Of course, people immediately went to social media to voic their opinions on ...

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the White Helmets were seen by many as the good guys. A Netflix documentary about them won an Oscar in 2016 and that year they were also nominated for the Nobel peace prize. Le Mesurier was ...

They were part of the Syrian civil defence group known as the White Helmets, which had operated in rebel-held areas during the civil war. After the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ...

White Helmet teams were conducting around 30 response calls a day at the height of the attacks When violence broke out in Syria's coastal area recently, including mass killings of civilians ...