This man was the public face of emergency volunteers in Syria. An Aleppo airstrike killed him.

A Syrian activist who became the face of the “White Helmet” civilian rescue force operating on the battlefields of Syria was killed by an airstrike on Thursday. Khaled Omar Harah, a painter and decorator before conflict erupted in 2011, was a member of the Syria Civil Defence, a group of nearly 3,000 volunteers who rush to…