Goodbye from Aleppo

The fall of Aleppo to Assad looks like it will hold a tragic ending to an already brutal story for civilians still in the city. “The UN children’s agency cited a doctor as saying a building housing as many as 100 unaccompanied children was under heavy attack.” And that’s just one example in the city where Syrian pro-government forces have been killing people, including women and children, on the spot.

+ “Humans all over the world, don’t sleep! You can do something, protest now! Stop the genocide.” From BBC: The final goodbyes from a city under siege.

+ One of most popular memes of the year was the ongoing discussion of how awful 2016 has been. In some places, 2016 really was epically bad. From Buzzfeed: This Is What Aleppo Looked Like This Year.