Tariq al-Raz was out trying to find biscuits for his five-year-old daughter Aseenat when he heard news of the attack. 

Syrian regime forces and their Shia militia allies were assaulting a rural area near the city of Homs, not far from where his wife and two children were waiting for him in their one-room house. 

Mr Raz borrowed a neighbour’s motorcycle and raced back to his home. He found his wife standing in a field with their daughter’s body in her arms, the little girl’s brown hair matted with blood.

Aseenat was killed an hour’s drive from where RAF warplanes blew up one of Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons sites on Saturday morning. She died 36 hours after the Tornado GR4s struck their target…

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