December 14: Aleppo, Syria – Buses which will be used to evacuate civilians leaving from rebel-held areas of Aleppo are seen waiting after the delay of a planned evacuation. Thousands of cold and hungry civilians crowded the streets of Aleppo uncertain of their future, after their planned evacuation from the last rebel pocket of the city was delayed by gunfire.

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