Destruction Comes To Aleppo, Syria..If We Don’t Talk What Can We Do?

Warfare and chaos have come to the ancient streets of Aleppo, Syria's largest city.
 Rebel groups battling Syrian government forces moved into the metropolis in
 recent weeks, in an effort to liberate it from the control of Syrian president,
Bashar al-Assad. Fierce street battles and air attacks followed, leaving
behind a shattered city, strewn with charred rubble and bodies in many places.
 An estimated 30,000 Syrians have already been killed in the past 18
months of civil war, and as many as 700,000 will have fled the country
by the end of 2012, according to the United Nations. [36 photos at
 theatlantic.com]

A Syrian man cries while holding the body of his son near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on October 3, 2012. Three suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives in a government-controlled area of the battleground Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 34 people, leveling buildings and trapping survivors under the rubble, state TV said. More than 120 people were injured, the government said.(AP Photo/Manu Brabo) 

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Smoke billows from a burning textile factory after a nearby position held by Syrian rebels was shelled by regime forces in the neighborhood of Arqub in the northern city of Aleppo, on September 30, 2012. Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad shelled rebel-held areas across Syria as fierce clashes were reported in second city Aleppo where a fire tore through a medieval souk.(Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images) #