Reporters, always hungry for good-news stories, jumped aboard. Western governments provided the White Helmets' main funding. Outsiders, powerless against the carnage, responded generously. While the forces of Bashar Al Assad and Vladimir Putin were dropping barrel bombs on the ancient city’s besieged eastern quarter, the 3,000 volunteers of Syrian Civil Defence, as the organisation is formally known, laboured doggedly to dig survivors, and bodies, from the rubble. All the world loved the White Helmets, it seemed, for what succour they were able to bring to the desperate civilians of Aleppo.
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