Umm Abdu: Aleppo's Embattled Nurse

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Umm Abdu has lost her husband and a son to the war in Syria, but the pistol-wearing woman refuses to abandon her embattled city.

Wow. “Getting justice from this war has become a personal jihad for me,” she admits. “I can’t work without it [the gun] any more.”

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