Ask HN: Why tech portals are writing about attack on UN convoy in Syria?

I follow several tech portals quite daily, and today it stood out that several, The Verge and Fast Company among them, run a story about sniper fire on UN convoy in Syria. Is this deliberate? I mean, what's so special about this news that it made into tech space? It's not a breaking news in the sense of "we interrupt this regular program to bring you the breaking news". It's not even surprising (the shooting), given they have a regular civil war out there, and the rebels are not strictly under a chain of command (so any freemen could have done that, for any reason).