Aleppo children sing to the world in a moving plea for help

Syrian children in Aleppo city appealed to the world to break the city’s siege and seek peace and in a video posted on 31 August. The children sang peace songs and held signs that read “save our children from the siege”. A girl in the video says, in an Aleppo accent, that they are under siege like Daraya but they wouldn’t leave Aleppo. Sep 1, 2016

Hostage video pleads with Afghan government not to execute prisoners

Caitlin Coleman and Joshua Boyle were kidnapped whilst on a hiking trip in Afghanistan in 2012. This is the first video released of them - Coleman is said to have now given birth twice in captivity. A Taliban source says the release of a video showing a US and a Canadian citizen held hostage by the Taliban is designed to pressure the Afghan government not to impose the death sentence on the son of a feared militant leader. Sep 1, 2016

Police investigation after four-year-old thrown off bridge into river

Two people reportedly received citations from police in Washington on 24 August, after a four-year-old was thrown off a bridge into a river. According to local reports, a woman described as the boys mother was cited for reckless endangerment and man was cited for the same as well as criminal trespassing. The boy was reportedly uninjured in the incident. Aug 31, 2016