Outrage at attacks in Brussels should be echoed for Syria

Conor Elliott compares the attacks in Brussels and Paris with those in Syria, particularly the Russian tactic of ‘double-tap’ bombing, which the Syrian people are running from

AS NEWS filtered through late last month of the attacks in Brussels, our thoughts instinctively turned to the families and friends of those who had been murdered, and to those living in the latest EU capital to feel the sharp end of terrorism.

It also struck me how the horror stories of injury and death in Brussels have the same terrible tragedy and vocabulary as the stories I have too often heard from inside Syria. I returned recently from the Turkey-Syria border where I met, as I regularly do, Syrian people whose loved ones and compatriots have fallen victim to similar attacks over the past five years of the conflict in Syria.