Mohammed Alaa al-Jaleel, pets cats at Ernesto’s Cat Sanctuary that he runs in Kfar Naha, an opposition-held town in Aleppo province in Syria on March 17, 2018. The 43-year-old, al-Jaleel who grew up in Aleppo, has been mad about cats since he was a boy. As the war raged in Syria and cat lovers fled the city, he was left with a plenty of cats to feed and a new nickname: the Cat Man of Aleppo.