This photo taken on Jan. 21, 2014 – the day before the Syria peace talks opened in Switzerland – shows Syrian emergency workers and civilians at the scene of a bombing in the northern city of Aleppo. Government forces reportedly dropped a barrel bomb on a minibus carrying civilians.
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