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A displaced Iraqi man, who fled the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, carries mattresses he received at Khazer camp, Iraq: photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters, 28 November 2016
#Hashed al-Shaabi fighters in Tofaha, near #TalAfar, west of #Mosul #AFPphoto by A. Rubaye #ghilliesuit #Sniper #PMF: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
Iraqi Shiite fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitaries advance in a desert area near the village of Tall Abtah, southwest of Mosul: photo by AFP, 29 November 2016
Iraqi Shiite fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitaries advance in a desert area near the village of Tall Abtah, southwest of Mosul: photo by AFP, 29 November 2016
Amazing #photos of the #oil #fires near #Qayarrah, #Iraq by @TomCOEX @AFPphoto: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
Amazing #photos of the #oil #fires near #Qayarrah, #Iraq by @TomCOEX @AFPphoto: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
Amazing #photos of the #oil #fires near #Qayarrah, #Iraq by @TomCOEX @AFPphoto: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
Amazing #photos of the #oil #fires near #Qayarrah, #Iraq by @TomCOEX @AFPphoto: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
Great pictures from the air of Iraqi army aviation striking #IS positions today near the city of #Mosul by @TomCOEX @ / @AFPphoto #IRAQ: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
#Iraq An Iraqi army Mi-35 helicopter shoots a missile at an IS group target near the village of Tall Abtah #mosul #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
Displaced Iraqi civilians drive back to their village of Tall Abtah, near the city of #Mosul on November 25, 2016. @TomCoex @AFPphoto: image via L'Instant-ParisMatch @instantmatchAFP, 26 November 2016
Displaced Iraqi civilians drive back to their village of Tall Abtah, near the city of Mosul #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
Displaced Iraqi civilians drive back to their village of Tall Abtah, near the city of Mosul #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
#Iraq The village of #Tall Abtah, #mosul after Iraqi forces retook the village from Islamic State (IS) #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
#Iraq The village of #Tall Abtah, #mosul after Iraqi forces retook the village from Islamic State (IS) #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
#Iraq The village of #Tall Abtah, #mosul after Iraqi forces retook the village from Islamic State (IS) #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
#Iraq The village of #Tall Abtah, #mosul after Iraqi forces retook the village from Islamic State (IS) #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
#Iraq - After IS hell, displaced Iraqis face winter freeze. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 27 November 2016
#Iraq - After IS hell, displaced Iraqis face winter freeze. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 27 November 2016
#Iraq - After IS hell, displaced Iraqis face winter freeze. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 27 November 2016
#Iraq - After IS hell, displaced Iraqis face winter freeze. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 27 November 2016
#Iraq - Iraqi residents of recently recaptured district of southeast Mosul, flee their neighbourhood. By @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 27 November 2016
#Iraq Internally displaced people queue to fill containers with fuel for heating and cooking at al-Khazer refugee camp #AFP Photo by @coex: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#Iraq Internally displaced people queue to fill containers with fuel for heating and cooking at al-Khazer refugee camp #AFP Photo by @coex: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
Outside #TrumpChi rally: image via e. jason wambsgans @ejwamb, 12 March 2016
-- tweets via Michael Joseph Garza @ampersandcastle, 12 March 2016
In the streets of Berlin (camera: Leica / film: Agfa Color Neu): photo by Thomas Neumann, 1937 (National Archives of Norway)
11 September 1941
Giorgios Seferiades (George Seferis) (1900-1971): Postscript, from Logbook II (Alexandria, 1944), in Collected Poems, translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
May 1st parade, Germany, 1930s: photo by Paul Walde; image by Andreas Praefcke, 2005
Donald J. Trump speaking at a rally on Monday on the aircraft carrier Yorktown in South Carolina: photo by Sean Rayford / The New York Times, 8 December 2015
Donald J. Trump speaking at a rally on Monday on the aircraft carrier Yorktown in South Carolina: photo by Sean Rayford / The New York Times, 8 December 2015
Donald J. Trump, in Macon, Ga., last week: photo by Kevin D. Liles for The New York Times, 5 December 2010
Donald J. Trump on Monday aboard the aircraft carrier Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: photo by Mic Smith/AP, 7 December 2015
Evan Jayne, of France, competes in the bareback riding event during the seventh go-round of the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas: photo by John Locher/AP, 10 December 2015
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, in 2004.The granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt assailed Donald J. Trump on Thursday for citing internment camps set up by the Roosevelt administration in defending his proposal to ban foreign Muslims from entering the United States.“For Donald Trump to cite my grandfather and internment as a defense of his own intolerant and divisive agenda is reprehensible,” said Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.“Japanese-Americans, who were loyal citizens and who served bravely in the U.S. military, were scarred not only by the physical deprivation of internment but by the denial of the dignity and respect of their own country. As a nation, internment weakened us all. It is a tragic reminder of what happens when we allow fear and hysteria to trump our values.": photo by John Amis/Associated Press via The New York Times, 10 December 2015
Manzanar cemetery: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 27 January 2009
Manzanar cemetery: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 27 January 2009
Manzanar cemetery: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 27 January 2009
Treasure Island. Bay Bridges.: photo by FilmandPhotoArchivist, 13 July 2014
A Donald J. Trump rally in Davenport, Iowa, last week. More than four in 10 Republican primary voters say the quality most important to them in a candidate is strong leadership, and those voters heavily favor Mr. Trump: photo by Scott Olson/The New York Times, 10 December 2015
A Donald J. Trump rally in Davenport, Iowa, last week. More than four in 10 Republican primary voters say the quality most important to them in a candidate is strong leadership, and those voters heavily favor Mr. Trump: photo by Scott Olson/The New York Times, 10 December 2015
Tyskland (Berlin) (camera: Leica / film: Agfa Color Neu): photo by Thomas Neumann, 1937 (National Archives of Norway)
Surgery, Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Lisbon. Architect: Hermann Distel. Conception of project: 1938. Period of construction: 1940-1953. Opening: 1954: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 1950(?)-1953 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)
Hospital of Santa Maria, Lisbon. Architect: Hermann Distel. Conception of project: 1938. Period of construction: 1940-1953. Opening: 1954: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 1950(?)-1953 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)
Grande Hotel da Figueira da Foz, Portugal Aechitect: Inácio Peres Fernandes. Opened 1953: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 1950s (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)
Crowd in Chiado, Lisbon: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 25 April 1974 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)
Crowd in Rua do Carmo, Lisbon: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 25 April 1974 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)
Act of State. Torchlight procession: photographer unknown, 1 February 1942 (National Archives of Norway)
Statsakten (Celebration of Act of State at Akershus, marking transition to German supremacy in Norway under the national government of Vidkun Quisling): photographer unknown, 1 February 1942(National Archives of Norway)
Dancing Bear, State Fair of Texas: photo by Lynn Lennon, 1985 (Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library)
During the forced evacuation of Finnmark, Byåsen school was used to house evacuees and as a temporary replacement hospital: photo by Ukjent, c. August 1944 (Municipal Archives of Trondheim)
During the forced evacuation of Finnmark, Byåsen school is used to house evacuees and as a temporary replacement hospital: photo by Ukjent, c. August 1944 (Municipal Archives of Trondheim)
Doubtful Sound, NZ: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 23 December 2013
Doubtful Sound, NZ: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 23 December 2013
Doubtful Sound, NZ: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 23 December 2013
Pt Reyes house: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 12 April 2013
Pt Reyes house: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 12 April 2013
Pt Reyes house: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 12 April 2013
Church and graveyard by the Atchafalaya levee. Taken in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana: photo by Mead Allison, 28 April 2013
Church and graveyard by the Atchafalaya levee. Taken in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana: photo by Mead Allison, 28 April 2013
Church and graveyard by the Atchafalaya levee. Taken in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.: photo by Mead Allison, 28 April 2013
A displaced Iraqi man, who fled the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, carries mattresses he received at Khazer camp, Iraq: photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters, 28 November 2016
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A displaced Iraqi man, who fled the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul, carries mattresses he received at Khazer camp, Iraq: photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters, 28 November 2016
An Iraqi soldier uses his rifle to hold up a helmet as a decoy during clashes with Islamic State fighters in Al-Qasar, South-East of Mosul, Iraq: photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters, 29 November 2016
An Iraqi soldier uses his rifle to hold up a helmet as a decoy during clashes with Islamic State fighters in Al-Qasar, South-East of Mosul, Iraq: photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters, 29 November 2016
An Iraqi soldier uses his rifle to hold up a helmet as a decoy during clashes with Islamic State fighters in Al-Qasar, South-East of Mosul, Iraq: photo by Goran Tomasevic/Reuters, 29 November 2016
#Hashed al-Shaabi fighters in Tofaha, near #TalAfar, west of #Mosul #AFPphoto by A. Rubaye #ghilliesuit #Sniper #PMF: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
Iraqi Shiite fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitaries advance in a desert area near the village of Tall Abtah, southwest of Mosul: photo by AFP, 29 November 2016
Iraqi Shiite fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitaries advance in a desert area near the village of Tall Abtah, southwest of Mosul: photo by AFP, 29 November 2016
#Iraq A displaced woman, who fled the violence in Mosul, enters her tent at the al-Khazar camp #AFP Photo by @safinhamed: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
Amazing #photos of the #oil #fires near #Qayarrah, #Iraq by @TomCOEX @AFPphoto: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
Amazing #photos of the #oil #fires near #Qayarrah, #Iraq by @TomCOEX @AFPphoto: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
Amazing #photos of the #oil #fires near #Qayarrah, #Iraq by @TomCOEX @AFPphoto: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
Amazing #photos of the #oil #fires near #Qayarrah, #Iraq by @TomCOEX @AFPphoto: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
Great pictures from the air of Iraqi army aviation striking #IS positions today near the city of #Mosul by @TomCOEX @ / @AFPphoto #IRAQ: image via Jean-Marc Mojon @mojobaghdad, 25 November 2016
#Iraq An Iraqi army Mi-35 helicopter shoots a missile at an IS group target near the village of Tall Abtah #mosul #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
Displaced Iraqi civilians drive back to their village of Tall Abtah, near the city of #Mosul on November 25, 2016. @TomCoex @AFPphoto: image via L'Instant-ParisMatch @instantmatchAFP, 26 November 2016
Displaced Iraqi civilians drive back to their village of Tall Abtah, near the city of Mosul #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
Displaced Iraqi civilians drive back to their village of Tall Abtah, near the city of Mosul #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
#Iraq The village of #Tall Abtah, #mosul after Iraqi forces retook the village from Islamic State (IS) #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
#Iraq The village of #Tall Abtah, #mosul after Iraqi forces retook the village from Islamic State (IS) #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
#Iraq The village of #Tall Abtah, #mosul after Iraqi forces retook the village from Islamic State (IS) #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
#Iraq The village of #Tall Abtah, #mosul after Iraqi forces retook the village from Islamic State (IS) #AFP Photo by @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 25 November 2016
#Iraq - After IS hell, displaced Iraqis face winter freeze. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 27 November 2016
#Iraq - After IS hell, displaced Iraqis face winter freeze. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 27 November 2016
#Iraq - After IS hell, displaced Iraqis face winter freeze. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 27 November 2016
#Iraq - After IS hell, displaced Iraqis face winter freeze. By Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 27 November 2016
#Iraq - Iraqi residents of recently recaptured district of southeast Mosul, flee their neighbourhood. By @TomCoex: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 27 November 2016
Shiite fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) advance from an area near Qayyarah towards the village of Tal Um Jadaan, southwest of Mosul: photo by AFP, 28 November 2016
Shiite fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) advance from an area near Qayyarah towards the village of Tal Um Jadaan, southwest of Mosul: photo by AFP, 28 November 2016
#Iraq Internally displaced people queue to fill containers with fuel for heating and cooking at al-Khazer refugee camp #AFP Photo by @coex: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#Iraq Internally displaced people queue to fill containers with fuel for heating and cooking at al-Khazer refugee camp #AFP Photo by @coex: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#Iraq Internally displaced people queue to fill containers with fuel for heating and cooking at al-Khazer refugee camp #AFP Photo by @coex: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#Cuba A man cleans a picture of #FidelCastro in Havana, on November 27, two days after he died #AFP Photo by @PPardo1: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#Cuba A man reads a newspaper obituary of #FidelCastro in Havana, on November 27, two days after he died #AFP Photo by @PPardo1: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is hugged by children during his visit to Samjiyon County: photo by Reuters, 28 November 2016
#Palestinian A woman holds a posters of late #FidelCastro in #Gaza to pay tribute to him after his death #AFP Photo by @m55baba: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#Cuba A man cleans a picture of #FidelCastro in Havana, on November 27, two days after he died #AFP Photo by @PPardo1: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#Cuba A man reads a newspaper obituary of #FidelCastro in Havana, on November 27, two days after he died #AFP Photo by @PPardo1: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is hugged by children during his visit to Samjiyon County: photo by Reuters, 28 November 2016
Paul Nuttall (L) is congratulated by former UKIP leader Nigel Farage after being elected new party leader: photo by Leon Neal, 28 November 2016
People gather in central Delhi for a protest against the government’s decision to withdraw 500 and 1000 Indian rupee banknotes from circulation: photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters, 28 November 2016
People gather in central Delhi for a protest against the government’s decision to withdraw 500 and 1000 Indian rupee banknotes from circulation: photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters, 28 November 2016
#India Tens of thousands protest against India cash ban #AFP Photo by @noahseelam @thisisindra @ArunsanKrish @nanuworld: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#India Tens of thousands protest against India cash ban #AFP Photo by @noahseelam @thisisindra @ArunsanKrish @nanuworld: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#India Tens of thousands protest against India cash ban #AFP Photo by @noahseelam @thisisindra @ArunsanKrish @nanuworld: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#India Tens of thousands protest against India cash ban #AFP Photo by @noahseelam @thisisindra @ArunsanKrish @nanuworld: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
Is not a scene from the film This horror by Russian air strikes Imagine that your brother #Warcrimes #StandWithAleppo #Syria: image via IRAQ @moonnor27, 27 November 2016
In eastern Aleppo: photo by Reuters, 28 November 2016
In 12 days, 500+ civilians were killed,1500+ injured and 4 hospitals and 2 SCD cntrs destroyd in #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef , 27 November 2016
In 12 days, 500+ civilians were killed,1500+ injured and 4 hospitals and 2 SCD cntrs destroyd in #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef , 27 November 2016
In 12 days, 500+ civilians were killed,1500+ injured and 4 hospitals and 2 SCD cntrs destroyd in #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef , 27 November 2016
In 12 days, 500+ civilians were killed,1500+ injured and 4 hospitals and 2 SCD cntrs destroyd in #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef, 27 November 2016
The work of the fire brigadein the Civil Defense, to put out a fire that broke out in an apartment in the city and to control the fire without injury #Aleppo always: image via SCD RifDimashq @SCD RifDimashq, 27 November 2016
The work of the fire brigadein the Civil Defense, to put out a fire that broke out in an apartment in the city and to control the fire without injury #Aleppo always: image via SCD RifDimashq @SCD RifDimashq, 27 November 2016
The work of the fire brigadein the Civil Defense, to put out a fire that broke out in an apartment in the city and to control the fire without injury #Aleppo always: image via SCD RifDimashq @SCD RifDimashq, 27 November 2016
150+ Airstrikes & 2500+ artillery shells targeted #Aleppo city and countryside today killing 46 civilians and injuring 325+ #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef, 26 November 2016
Scavenging to survive in eastern #Aleppo: image via baraa al-halabi @baraaalhalabi, 24 November 2016
#Aleppo: The Tiger issued a statement giving militants last warning to leave Aleppo city or suffer total annihilation: image via Yusha Yuseef @MIG29, 27 November 2016
: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 November 2016
: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 November 2016
George Ourfalian/Agence France-Presse, 28 November 2016
: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 November 2016
George Ourfalian/Agence France-Presse, 28 November 2016
People gather in central Delhi for a protest against the government’s decision to withdraw 500 and 1000 Indian rupee banknotes from circulation: photo by Cathal McNaughton/Reuters, 28 November 2016
#India Tens of thousands protest against India cash ban #AFP Photo by @noahseelam @thisisindra @ArunsanKrish @nanuworld: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#India Tens of thousands protest against India cash ban #AFP Photo by @noahseelam @thisisindra @ArunsanKrish @nanuworld: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#India Tens of thousands protest against India cash ban #AFP Photo by @noahseelam @thisisindra @ArunsanKrish @nanuworld: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
#India Tens of thousands protest against India cash ban #AFP Photo by @noahseelam @thisisindra @ArunsanKrish @nanuworld: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 28 November 2016
This is the moment when "never again" became a lie
Is not a scene from the film This horror by Russian air strikes Imagine that your brother #Warcrimes #StandWithAleppo #Syria: image via IRAQ @moonnor27, 27 November 2016
In eastern Aleppo: photo by Reuters, 28 November 2016
Syrian government drives rebels from swath of Aleppo: Tom Perry and Laila Bassam in Beirut for Reuters, 29 November 2016
The Syrian army and its allies announced the capture of a large swath of eastern Aleppo from rebels on Monday in an accelerating attack that threatens to crush the opposition in its most important urban stronghold.Two rebel officials said the insurgents, facing fierce bombardment and ground attacks, had withdrawn from the northern part of eastern Aleppo to a more defensible front line along a big highway after losses that threatened to split their enclave.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the northern portion of eastern Aleppo lost by the rebels amounted to more than a third of the territory they had held, calling it the biggest defeat for the opposition in Aleppo since 2012.
Thousands of residents were reported to have fled. A rebel fighter reached by Reuters said there was "extreme, extreme, extreme pressure" on the insurgents.
Part of the area lost by the rebels was taken over by a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia from another part of Aleppo in what rebels described as an agreed handover, a rare example of cooperation between groups that have fought each other.
Hundreds of miles to the south, people started to leave the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Khan al-Shih for other parts of the country controlled by insurgents under a deal with the government, the Observatory said.
It is the latest such agreement, characterised by Damascus as "reconciliations" but decried by rebels as the forcible removal of the populations of opposition areas, and a model that the government has suggested could be employed in east Aleppo.
Capturing eastern Aleppo would be the biggest victory for President Bashar al-Assad since the start of the uprising against him in 2011, restoring his control over the whole city apart from a Kurdish-held area that has not fought against him.
For Assad, taking back Aleppo would shore up his grip over the main population centres of western Syria where he and his allies have focused their firepower while much of the rest of the country remains outside their control.
It would be seen as a victory for his allies, Russia and Iran, which have outmanoeuvred the West and Assad's regional enemies through direct military intervention.
"What happened in the last two days is a great strategic accomplishment by the Syrian army and allies," a fighter with a militia on the government side in the Aleppo area said.
Rebels say their foreign patrons including the United States have abandoned them to their fate in Aleppo.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the northern portion of eastern Aleppo lost by the rebels amounted to more than a third of the territory they had held, calling it the biggest defeat for the opposition in Aleppo since 2012.
Thousands of residents were reported to have fled. A rebel fighter reached by Reuters said there was "extreme, extreme, extreme pressure" on the insurgents.
Part of the area lost by the rebels was taken over by a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia from another part of Aleppo in what rebels described as an agreed handover, a rare example of cooperation between groups that have fought each other.
Hundreds of miles to the south, people started to leave the rebel-held Damascus suburb of Khan al-Shih for other parts of the country controlled by insurgents under a deal with the government, the Observatory said.
It is the latest such agreement, characterised by Damascus as "reconciliations" but decried by rebels as the forcible removal of the populations of opposition areas, and a model that the government has suggested could be employed in east Aleppo.
Capturing eastern Aleppo would be the biggest victory for President Bashar al-Assad since the start of the uprising against him in 2011, restoring his control over the whole city apart from a Kurdish-held area that has not fought against him.
For Assad, taking back Aleppo would shore up his grip over the main population centres of western Syria where he and his allies have focused their firepower while much of the rest of the country remains outside their control.
It would be seen as a victory for his allies, Russia and Iran, which have outmanoeuvred the West and Assad's regional enemies through direct military intervention.
"What happened in the last two days is a great strategic accomplishment by the Syrian army and allies," a fighter with a militia on the government side in the Aleppo area said.
Rebels say their foreign patrons including the United States have abandoned them to their fate in Aleppo.
Assad, whose backers also include the Lebanese group Hezbollah, has gradually closed in on eastern Aleppo this year, first cutting the most direct lifeline to Turkey before fully encircling the east, and launching a major assault in September.
A military news service run by Hezbollah declared the northern portion of eastern Aleppo under full state control.
The Russian Defence Ministry said about 40 percent of the eastern part of the city had been "freed" from militants by Syrian government forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Syrian army’s advances with members of his Security Council on Monday, Russian news agencies quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.
Officials with two Aleppo rebel groups said rebels had withdrawn to areas they could more easily defend, particularly after losing the Hanano housing complex area on Saturday.
"It is a withdrawal for the sake of being able to defend and reinforce the front lines," an official in the Jabha Shamiya rebel group told Reuters.
KURDISH MILITIA
Citing a military source, Syrian state TV said the army and its allies had seized another key eastern Aleppo neighbourhood, al-Sakhour. The Jabha Shamiya official said part of it had been evacuated so it would become part of the new frontline.
The Kurdish YPG militia which controls the Sheikh Maqsoud district of Aleppo moved into at least two of the areas left by rebel forces. The YPG, a U.S. ally in the war with Islamic State, has been hostile to the Aleppo rebel groups.
Rebel officials said the YPG had moved into areas on Sunday night in an agreement with the insurgents.
While some of the rebels in Aleppo have received support from states such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United States during the war, they say their foreign backers have failed them as Assad and his allies unleash enormous firepower.
"The situation is very bad and the reason is the round the clock shelling with all types of weapons," said Abdul Salam Abdul Razaq, military spokesman for the Nour al-Din al-Zinki group, one of the main Aleppo rebel factions.
"There is very fierce fighting going on now and the regime and its supporters are destroying whole areas to allow themselves to advance," he told Reuters. Another fighter said there was heavy attrition in "people and ammunition".
Aleppo's Civil Defence group of rescue workers operating in rebel areas said the only fuel it had left was what remained in its vehicles and equipment.
The fighting has forced thousands of residents of eastern Aleppo to flee. Some have gone to the Kurdish-held Sheikh Maqsoud district, others have gone over to government territory, and others have moved deeper into remaining rebel-held areas.
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent registered 4,000 people in the government-held Jibreen district of western Aleppo after they fled the rebel-held east in recent days, the UN's humanitarian spokesman Jens Laerke said on Monday.
Mohammad Sandeh, a member of the opposition city council of Aleppo, told Reuters that many people were on the move but staying in the remaining rebel-held parts of Aleppo.
"The bombardment is still heavy. There's big displacement from the eastern neighbourhoods. They are going towards the areas that are somewhat further (from the front lines)," he said. "There's fear that the regime will advance more."
Saleh Muslim, joint head of the Syrian Kurdish PYD party, told Reuters that between 6,000 to 10,000 people had fled to Sheikh Maqsoud, where they were being received.
The Observatory said several thousand more had crossed front lines in other parts of eastern Aleppo and had been taken to government-controlled areas of western Aleppo.
A spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said exact figures for the number of displaced were difficult to gauge, adding that more than 2,000 had left eastern Aleppo for the government-controlled district of Jibreen.
A military news service run by Hezbollah declared the northern portion of eastern Aleppo under full state control.
The Russian Defence Ministry said about 40 percent of the eastern part of the city had been "freed" from militants by Syrian government forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Syrian army’s advances with members of his Security Council on Monday, Russian news agencies quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying.
Officials with two Aleppo rebel groups said rebels had withdrawn to areas they could more easily defend, particularly after losing the Hanano housing complex area on Saturday.
"It is a withdrawal for the sake of being able to defend and reinforce the front lines," an official in the Jabha Shamiya rebel group told Reuters.
KURDISH MILITIA
Citing a military source, Syrian state TV said the army and its allies had seized another key eastern Aleppo neighbourhood, al-Sakhour. The Jabha Shamiya official said part of it had been evacuated so it would become part of the new frontline.
The Kurdish YPG militia which controls the Sheikh Maqsoud district of Aleppo moved into at least two of the areas left by rebel forces. The YPG, a U.S. ally in the war with Islamic State, has been hostile to the Aleppo rebel groups.
Rebel officials said the YPG had moved into areas on Sunday night in an agreement with the insurgents.
While some of the rebels in Aleppo have received support from states such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United States during the war, they say their foreign backers have failed them as Assad and his allies unleash enormous firepower.
"The situation is very bad and the reason is the round the clock shelling with all types of weapons," said Abdul Salam Abdul Razaq, military spokesman for the Nour al-Din al-Zinki group, one of the main Aleppo rebel factions.
"There is very fierce fighting going on now and the regime and its supporters are destroying whole areas to allow themselves to advance," he told Reuters. Another fighter said there was heavy attrition in "people and ammunition".
Aleppo's Civil Defence group of rescue workers operating in rebel areas said the only fuel it had left was what remained in its vehicles and equipment.
The fighting has forced thousands of residents of eastern Aleppo to flee. Some have gone to the Kurdish-held Sheikh Maqsoud district, others have gone over to government territory, and others have moved deeper into remaining rebel-held areas.
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent registered 4,000 people in the government-held Jibreen district of western Aleppo after they fled the rebel-held east in recent days, the UN's humanitarian spokesman Jens Laerke said on Monday.
Mohammad Sandeh, a member of the opposition city council of Aleppo, told Reuters that many people were on the move but staying in the remaining rebel-held parts of Aleppo.
"The bombardment is still heavy. There's big displacement from the eastern neighbourhoods. They are going towards the areas that are somewhat further (from the front lines)," he said. "There's fear that the regime will advance more."
Saleh Muslim, joint head of the Syrian Kurdish PYD party, told Reuters that between 6,000 to 10,000 people had fled to Sheikh Maqsoud, where they were being received.
The Observatory said several thousand more had crossed front lines in other parts of eastern Aleppo and had been taken to government-controlled areas of western Aleppo.
A spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said exact figures for the number of displaced were difficult to gauge, adding that more than 2,000 had left eastern Aleppo for the government-controlled district of Jibreen.
In 12 days, 500+ civilians were killed,1500+ injured and 4 hospitals and 2 SCD cntrs destroyd in #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef , 27 November 2016
In 12 days, 500+ civilians were killed,1500+ injured and 4 hospitals and 2 SCD cntrs destroyd in #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef , 27 November 2016
In 12 days, 500+ civilians were killed,1500+ injured and 4 hospitals and 2 SCD cntrs destroyd in #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef , 27 November 2016
In 12 days, 500+ civilians were killed,1500+ injured and 4 hospitals and 2 SCD cntrs destroyd in #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef, 27 November 2016
The heartbreak of the messages from east Aleppo that made it is unspeakable. There is almost bitter gratitude that death is finally coming.: tweet via Kareem Shaheen, 27 November 2016
From this moment on, R2P is dead: tweet via Kareem Shaheen, 27 November 2016
From this moment on, R2P is dead: tweet via Kareem Shaheen, 27 November 2016
From this moment on, siege warfare, bombing of hospitals and mass civilian deaths have become a normalized form of warfare: tweet via Kareem Shaheen, 27 November 2016
The fall of Aleppo is beginning. This is the moment when "never again" became a lie.: tweet via Kareem Shaheen, 27 November 2016
The work of the fire brigadein the Civil Defense, to put out a fire that broke out in an apartment in the city and to control the fire without injury #Aleppo always: image via SCD RifDimashq @SCD RifDimashq, 27 November 2016
The work of the fire brigadein the Civil Defense, to put out a fire that broke out in an apartment in the city and to control the fire without injury #Aleppo always: image via SCD RifDimashq @SCD RifDimashq, 27 November 2016
The work of the fire brigadein the Civil Defense, to put out a fire that broke out in an apartment in the city and to control the fire without injury #Aleppo always: image via SCD RifDimashq @SCD RifDimashq, 27 November 2016
150+ Airstrikes & 2500+ artillery shells targeted #Aleppo city and countryside today killing 46 civilians and injuring 325+ #Aleppo #StandWithAleppo: image via The White Helmets @SyriaCivilDef, 26 November 2016
Scavenging to survive in eastern #Aleppo: image via baraa al-halabi @baraaalhalabi, 24 November 2016
#Aleppo: The Tiger issued a statement giving militants last warning to leave Aleppo city or suffer total annihilation: image via Yusha Yuseef @MIG29, 27 November 2016
: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 November 2016
: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 November 2016
George Ourfalian/Agence France-Presse, 28 November 2016
: photo by Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters, 28 November 2016
George Ourfalian/Agence France-Presse, 28 November 2016
A woman holds a branch of cedar during a prayer ceremony on Backwater Bridge during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota: photo by Stephanie Keith/Reuters, 28 November 2016
A woman holds a branch of cedar during a prayer ceremony on Backwater Bridge during a protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota: photo by Stephanie Keith/Reuters, 28 November 2016
At the Trump rally...: image via Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald, 12 March 2016
Internal Displacement: "But their eyes are all white"
At the Trump rally...: image via Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald, 12 March 2016
Outside #TrumpChi rally: image via e. jason wambsgans @ejwamb, 12 March 2016
I am the man on the left, and she openly Hailed Hitler. And held the stance gladly.
I was inviting her to walk out down the path we cleared for her. Scouts honor.
I asked her to leave down the path we cleared for her, this was her response.
I was astounded. Still tried to get her to leave, for her own safety at that point. #TrumpRallyChi
I was inviting her to walk out down the path we cleared for her. Scouts honor.
I asked her to leave down the path we cleared for her, this was her response.
I was astounded. Still tried to get her to leave, for her own safety at that point. #TrumpRallyChi
-- tweets via Michael Joseph Garza @ampersandcastle, 12 March 2016
In the streets of Berlin (camera: Leica / film: Agfa Color Neu): photo by Thomas Neumann, 1937 (National Archives of Norway)
But their eyes are all white, without lashes
and their arms thin as reeds.
Lord, not with these people. I've known
the voices of children at dawn
rushing down green slopes
happy as bees, happy as butterflies
with so many colours.
Lord, not with these people, their voices
don't even leave their mouths --
they stay glued to their yellow teeth.
Yours is the sea and the wind
with a star hung in the firmament.
Lord, they don't know that we are
what we are able to be
healing our wounds with herbs
found on the green slopes,
these slopes nearby, not any others;
that we breathe as we are able to breathe
with a little prayer each dawn
that reaches the shore by crossing
the chasms of memory --
Lord, not with these people. Let your will be done in another way.
and their arms thin as reeds.
Lord, not with these people. I've known
the voices of children at dawn
rushing down green slopes
happy as bees, happy as butterflies
with so many colours.
Lord, not with these people, their voices
don't even leave their mouths --
they stay glued to their yellow teeth.
Yours is the sea and the wind
with a star hung in the firmament.
Lord, they don't know that we are
what we are able to be
healing our wounds with herbs
found on the green slopes,
these slopes nearby, not any others;
that we breathe as we are able to breathe
with a little prayer each dawn
that reaches the shore by crossing
the chasms of memory --
Lord, not with these people. Let your will be done in another way.
11 September 1941
Giorgios Seferiades (George Seferis) (1900-1971): Postscript, from Logbook II (Alexandria, 1944), in Collected Poems, translated from the Greek by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
May 1st parade, Germany, 1930s: photo by Paul Walde; image by Andreas Praefcke, 2005
Donald J. Trump speaking at a rally on Monday on the aircraft carrier Yorktown in South Carolina: photo by Sean Rayford / The New York Times, 8 December 2015
Donald J. Trump speaking at a rally on Monday on the aircraft carrier Yorktown in South Carolina: photo by Sean Rayford / The New York Times, 8 December 2015
Donald J. Trump, in Macon, Ga., last week: photo by Kevin D. Liles for The New York Times, 5 December 2010
Donald J. Trump on Monday aboard the aircraft carrier Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: photo by Mic Smith/AP, 7 December 2015
Donald J. Trump, in Macon, Ga., last week, uses a harsh tone: photo by Kevin D. Liles for The New York Times, 5 December 2015
Evan Jayne, of France, competes in the bareback riding event during the seventh go-round of the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas: photo by John Locher/AP, 10 December 2015
Evan Jayne, of France, competes in the bareback riding event during the seventh go-round of the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas: photo by John Locher/AP, 10 December 2015
W. H. Auden: Epitaph on a Tyrant
Donald J. Trump, in Raleigh N.C., last Friday, has caused the Democrats to try to figure out the roots of his appeal: photo by Ray Whitehouse for The New York Times, 10 December 2015
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Donald J. Trump, in Raleigh N.C., last Friday, has caused the Democrats to try to figure out the roots of his appeal: photo by Ray Whitehouse for The New York Times, 10 December 2015
Donald J. Trump has also gained some support in Britain, and a counterpetition titled “Don’t Ban Trump From the United Kingdom” has more than 10,000 signatures: photo by John Locher/Associated Press, 10 December 2015
W. H. Auden: Epitaph on a Tyrant
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
W. H. Auden (1907-1973):Epitaph on a Tyrant, January 1939, from Another Time (1940)
A Donald J. Trump rally in Davenport, Iowa, last week. More than four in 10 Republican primary voters say the quality most important to them in a candidate is strong leadership, and those voters heavily favor Mr. Trump: photo by Scott Olson/The New York Times, 10 December 2015
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A Donald J. Trump rally in Davenport, Iowa, last week. More than four in 10 Republican primary voters say the quality most important to them in a candidate is strong leadership, and those voters heavily favor Mr. Trump: photo by Scott Olson/The New York Times, 10 December 2015
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A Donald J. Trump rally in Davenport, Iowa, last week. More than four in 10 Republican primary voters say the quality most important to them in a candidate is strong leadership, and those voters heavily favor Mr. Trump: photo by Scott Olson/The New York Times, 10 December 2015
Donald J. Trump, in Raleigh N.C., last Friday, has caused the Democrats to try to figure out the roots of his appeal: photo by Ray Whitehouse for The New York Times, 10 December 2015
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Donald J. Trump, in Raleigh N.C., last Friday, has caused the Democrats to try to figure out the roots of his appeal: photo by Ray Whitehouse for The New York Times, 10 December 2015
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, in 2004.The granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt assailed Donald J. Trump on Thursday for citing internment camps set up by the Roosevelt administration in defending his proposal to ban foreign Muslims from entering the United States.“For Donald Trump to cite my grandfather and internment as a defense of his own intolerant and divisive agenda is reprehensible,” said Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.“Japanese-Americans, who were loyal citizens and who served bravely in the U.S. military, were scarred not only by the physical deprivation of internment but by the denial of the dignity and respect of their own country. As a nation, internment weakened us all. It is a tragic reminder of what happens when we allow fear and hysteria to trump our values.": photo by John Amis/Associated Press via The New York Times, 10 December 2015
Manzanar cemetery: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 27 January 2009
Manzanar cemetery: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 27 January 2009
Manzanar cemetery: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 27 January 2009
Treasure Island. Bay Bridges.: photo by FilmandPhotoArchivist, 13 July 2014
A Donald J. Trump rally in Davenport, Iowa, last week. More than four in 10 Republican primary voters say the quality most important to them in a candidate is strong leadership, and those voters heavily favor Mr. Trump: photo by Scott Olson/The New York Times, 10 December 2015
A Donald J. Trump rally in Davenport, Iowa, last week. More than four in 10 Republican primary voters say the quality most important to them in a candidate is strong leadership, and those voters heavily favor Mr. Trump: photo by Scott Olson/The New York Times, 10 December 2015
Tyskland (Berlin) (camera: Leica / film: Agfa Color Neu): photo by Thomas Neumann, 1937 (National Archives of Norway)
Surgery, Portuguese Institute of Oncology, Lisbon. Architect: Hermann Distel. Conception of project: 1938. Period of construction: 1940-1953. Opening: 1954: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 1950(?)-1953 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)
Hospital of Santa Maria, Lisbon. Architect: Hermann Distel. Conception of project: 1938. Period of construction: 1940-1953. Opening: 1954: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 1950(?)-1953 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)
Grande Hotel da Figueira da Foz, Portugal Aechitect: Inácio Peres Fernandes. Opened 1953: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 1950s (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)
Crowd in Chiado, Lisbon: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 25 April 1974 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)
Crowd in Rua do Carmo, Lisbon: photo by Estúdio Horácio Novais, 25 April 1974 (Biblioteca de Arte / Art Library Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian)
Act of State. Torchlight procession: photographer unknown, 1 February 1942 (National Archives of Norway)
Dancing Bear, State Fair of Texas: photo by Lynn Lennon, 1985 (Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library)
During the forced evacuation of Finnmark, Byåsen school was used to house evacuees and as a temporary replacement hospital: photo by Ukjent, c. August 1944 (Municipal Archives of Trondheim)
During the forced evacuation of Finnmark, Byåsen school is used to house evacuees and as a temporary replacement hospital: photo by Ukjent, c. August 1944 (Municipal Archives of Trondheim)
Doubtful Sound, NZ: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 23 December 2013
Doubtful Sound, NZ: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 23 December 2013
Doubtful Sound, NZ: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 23 December 2013
Pt Reyes house: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 12 April 2013
Pt Reyes house: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 12 April 2013
Pt Reyes house: photo by Amanda Tomlin, 12 April 2013
Fishermen place bamboo, where they will later place tree branches and fish food, to catch fish in a river in Dhaka, Bangladesh: photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters, 29 November 2016
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Fishermen place bamboo, where they will later place tree branches and fish food, to catch fish in a river in Dhaka, Bangladesh: photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters, 29 November 2016
Church and graveyard by the Atchafalaya levee. Taken in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana: photo by Mead Allison, 28 April 2013
Church and graveyard by the Atchafalaya levee. Taken in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana: photo by Mead Allison, 28 April 2013
Church and graveyard by the Atchafalaya levee. Taken in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana.: photo by Mead Allison, 28 April 2013
Chinese twins wear virtual reality glasses (VR) as they ride in a roller coaster simulator at the Wantong VR Park: photo by Kevin Frayer, 29 November 2016
Chinese twins wear virtual reality glasses (VR) as they ride in a roller coaster simulator at the Wantong VR Park: photo by Kevin Frayer, 29 November 2016
Chinese twins wear virtual reality glasses (VR) as they ride in a roller coaster simulator at the Wantong VR Park: photo by Kevin Frayer, 29 November 2016