This is one of the hottest spots of our planet.
Recently in USA there was a curious case. During an interview on MSNBC, the presidential candidate of a country that bears the primary responsibility for what is happening in Syria, Gary Johnson asked the journalist: “what is Aleppo?”.
Aleppo is Syria’s largest city, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, ruined and torn by the incessant war.
This curious situation occurred in the early morning of September 8 live. Journalist, sadava questions to the former Governor of new Mexico, candidate for U.S. President from the libertarian party Gary Johnson
— What would you do if elected to the post of the head of state, Aleppo?
— What is Aleppo? — was the answer of the candidate for U.S. President from the libertarian party’s Gary Johnson.
— Are you kidding?
— No.
— Aleppo is located in Syria — began to explain to the journalist.
1. (Photo By Haleem Al-Halabi | Reuters):
2. Boy died on October 3, 2013. (Photo Manu Brabo):
3. Aleppo through the telescopic sight of a sniper rifle, Aug 29, 2012. (Photo By Zac Baillie):
4. Aleppo may 19, 2015. (Photo By George Ourfalian):
According to reports, at the end of 2015 the number of victims is about 300 thousand people and over 4 million people fled the country.
5. Died, March 18, 2014. (Photo By Khaled Khatib):
6. Barricade in a ruined quarter, March 6, 2015. (Photo By Hosam Katan | Reuters):
Civil war with foreign intervention goes here since 2011.
7. Near the hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Sep 20, 2012. (Photo Manu Brabo):
8. Aleppo, Syria, March 7, 2014. (Photo By Baraa Al-Halabi):
9. The deceased 7-year-old boy. (Photo Manu Brabo):
10. Shortly before the outbreak of civil war in Syria, Aleppo has experienced a short Renaissance period. In 2006 the city won the title of “Capital of Islamic culture”. So it looks like now. (Photo By Hosam Katan | Reuters):
11. The surviving child, 9 March 2014. (Photo By Hosam Katan | Reuters):
12. Barricade of buses — protection against snipers of Aleppo on March 21, 2015. (Photo By Ammar Abdullah | Reuters):
13. Airstrike. Aleppo, 18 Aug 2016. (Photo By George Ourfalian):
14. Aleppo — one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it has been inhabited since perhaps as early as the 6th Millennium BC. The oldest city in the world fades…Aleppo, July 29, 2016. (Photo By George Ourfalian):
That is what Aleppo.
15. The deceased girl, 25 Jul 2016. (Photo By Mujahed Abul Joud):