(George Ourfalian/AFP/Getty Images)Hundreds of passengers rode the train back into the Syrian city of Aleppo this week, four years after the area’s railway tracks were silenced by war. Gliding toward the Old City, they peered out across the formerly rebel-held eastern districts, shattered beyond recognition and now under government control. (George Ourfalian/AFP/Getty Images)Syrians board a train at Aleppo’s Jibreen station on the city’s eastern outskirts for a one-hour round trip. (George Ourfalian/AFP/Getty Images)Syrian women sit in front of portraits of President Bashar al-Assad in a train traveling through eastern Aleppo. We will need it when the war ends.”A train travels through Aleppo’s eastern districts for the first time in more than four years.

Source: Washington Post January 26, 2017 20:09 UTC