“This was the shot I had planned for. My first picture was no good -- it was out of the frame. But the second captured the moment: The streak of the missile, drawn out in the long exposures, lanced up into the night, another one further behind it,” recounted the Beirut-based photojournalist.
Damascus skies erupt with surface-to-air missile fire as the U.S. launches an attack on Syria, April 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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