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Topic: Aleppo

Escaping Aleppo for California

(AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

syrians describe nightmare

Rania Khalek - Alternet

Syrians walk down a destroyed street in Aleppo's al-Akroub neighborhood on December 17, 2016. (Getty/Youssef Karwashan)

Syrians walk down a destroyed street in Aleppo's al-Akroub neighborhood on December 17, 2016. (Getty/Youssef Karwashan)

Aleppo and the empathy gap

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This image released on Friday, Dec. 16, 2016 by Aleppo 24, shows a man of eastern Aleppo standing next to a fire in western rural Aleppo, Syria. As the last holdouts leave the rebel-held enclave in Aleppo, they speak of their love for the city despite witnessing so much destruction and death. Bit by bit over three weeks, the government offensive chipped away at their last refuge. (Aleppo 24 via AP) (AP)

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bombing in Aleppo continues

In this Monday, Dec. 5, 2016 photo, a Syrian girl walks amid the wreckage of damaged buildings and shops in the western city of Aleppo, Syria. (AP)

Aleppo cease-fire collapses

FILE -- In this Monday, Dec. 5, 2016 file photo, a ball of fire rises following an air strike hits insurgents positions in eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, Syria. Aleppo shakes with explosions and gunfire day and night in both the government and rebel sides. But for supporters of President Bashar Assad at least, there is comfort in the growing sense of imminent victory in the city. A rebel defeat in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and former commercial center, is likely to reverberate across the war-torn country, where opposition forces continue to hold out in smaller, more disconnected areas. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File) (AP)

UN reports slaughter in Aleppo

Grace Guarnieri

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Men inspect a damaged site after double airstrikes on the rebel held Bab al-Nairab neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, August 27, 2016. (Reuters/Abdalrhman Ismail)

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Mireia Triguero Roura

Men inspect a damaged site after double airstrikes on the rebel held Bab al-Nairab neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, August 27, 2016. (Reuters/Abdalrhman Ismail)

We have so much to learn

Sophia A. McClennen

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Gary Johnson (Getty/Molly Riley)

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (L) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) during a bilateral meeting focused on the Syrian crisis in Geneva, Switzerland August 26, 2016. (Reuters)

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Patrick Cole - Bloomberg

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian people gather in front of a crater caused by an explosion hit a university in Aleppo, Syria. (AP/SANA)

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Natasha Lennard

Scene still from "The Hidden Cost of Hamburgers"

Amanda Pike - The I Files

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian people gather in front of a crater caused by an explosion hit a university in Aleppo, Syria. (AP/SANA)

Daniel DeFraia - GlobalPost

Natasha Lennard

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Aleppo on Tuesday (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)

Entrance to ancient souk, Aleppo ((Wikimedia))

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