Sentences with phrase «group white helmets»

Members of the volunteer group White Helmets offer aid to the wounded during the Syrian civil war.

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At least 70 people «suffocated to death» and hundreds more were injured in Douma, a suburb of Damascus in the Eastern Ghouta area, the BBC and Al Jazeera reported, citing the White Helmets and other local rescue groups.

On Wednesday, Poznikhir alleged that the White Helmets — a Syrian civil defense group — had «staged chemical attacks for the cameras» and that Russian chemical weapons specialists and medical personnel had found no trace of chemical weapons in the affected area.

The 21 - year - old, captured the real - life heroism of the Nobel Peace Prize - nominated group known for their white rescue helmets, as they dig out survivors from bombings in Syria's on - going civil war.

What does make sense is using White Helmets, supposedly independent but in fact group with proven links with jihadists, to film some shoddy films about rescuing people in chemical contaminated zone without equipment and without repercussions.

You might recall that as ballots were still out for the 2016 race, the Netflix's nominated documentary short The White Helmets got extra ink when it appeared that the actual leader of that group would not be able to attend the Oscars due to the Donald Trump travel ban affecting several Middle Eastern countries including Syria and Iran.

White Helmets, a 40 - minute Netflix film about a volunteer rescue group operating in war - torn Syria, saw its British director Orlando von Einsiedel and British producer Joanna Natasegara take the best documentary short award.

The better part of the last decade has been spent in bloodshed as coalitions of rebels, extremist groups... Continue reading The White Helmets

The White Helmets, about a Syrian civil defence group, won best documentary short, arguably another poke at Trump, since its cinematographer, Khaled Khateeb, was denied entry to the US.

Syrian director Feras Fayyad followed a group of civil defense workers known as the White Helmets in their desperate attempt to rescue victims from the rubble.

Arriving at a seemingly abandoned building our group of intrepid heroes are kitted out in white armor with a helmet that incorporates a VR vistor, turning the clean, white interior into a warzone.

The trade group officially endorsed Trump earlier this week, and Hamilton was onstage at the Charleston rally to hand Trump a white miner's helmet.