What Is Aleppo? This Is Aleppo – The Atlantic

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What Is Aleppo? This Is Aleppo

Earlier today, Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson was asked by a journalist “What would you do, if you were elected, about Aleppo?” Johnson replied with his own question: “What is Aleppo?”

via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/09/what-is-aleppo-this-is-aleppo/499163/

Aleppo is Syria’s largest city, an urban battlefield in the brutal Syrian Civil War since 2012. Reporters and photojournalists have been covering the conflict for years, documenting the belligerents as well as the tragic circumstances of those civilians caught up in the multifaceted war