19 ways people are saying ‘goodbye’ to Aleppo

Expelled from battered Aleppo, residents leave behind their mark on their city.

This week, thousands of east Aleppo residents are packing up their belongings and boarding buses bound for tent camps in Idlib.

The Syrian regime calls it an “evacuation”. But many Syrians call it “forced displacement”. Defeated yet defiant, their last messages from Aleppo reveal a deep connection to their home.

Here are some of the ways they’re leaving their home behind:

1. Aleppo’s residents bid farewell to the streets where they survived years of war and siege: