PHOTOS: This is Aleppo

Everybody makes mistakes, and this week the Libertarian Party candidate for the 2016 US Presidential election Gary Johnson made an enormous one.

Johnson was asked what he would do about Aleppo if elected during an interview and earnestly asked in reply: "And what is Aleppo?"

WATCH: Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson asks Mike Barnicle, "What is Aleppo?" https://t.co/BcG5hufHYf

— MS NOW (@MSNOWNews) September 8, 2016

It is likely that many people are still unaware of the situation in Aleppo, especially if someone running in the election to be the president of the United States does not know.

The city has been widely reported on during the years that Syria has been consumed by civil war and is often noted as being at the centre of Syria’s refugee crisis.

But as they say, a picture speaks a thousand words, so here is a selection of some of our pictures documenting the war-torn city.

This is Aleppo.

via breakingnews.ie