BALADI NEWS
The young Syrian girl who captured the world's attention after tweeting about the civil war has spoken about the need for 'urgent action' for refugees.
Bana Alabed, now nine, was evacuated from war-torn Aleppo along with her family in 2016.
Her tweets in English documented the airstrikes, hunger, destruction and death surrounding her life in Syria.
Bana, who now lives in Turkey but says she misses her old life in Syria, said: 'When the war started, everything changed. I was afraid that I, or another member of my family, would die.'
The girl, who was just seven when she started her Twitter account, lost her friend Yasmin in the war and often went without food or water.
She told Anadolu Agency: 'Refugee children all over the world, especially in Syria, have suffered a lot from bombings and conflicts.
'We must try to bring peace to their countries, so they can return to their homes.'
Bana had a two-day journey from Syria to Turkey with many other refugee children where she was greeted by president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on her arrival.
She said: 'I told myself I have to remain calm when delivering my message from the children of Syria, which is to let children everywhere live in peace.'
Source: Daily Mail Online.