AFP PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2016 Members of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent and other volunteers search for victims as fire spreads behind them following a reported government airstrike on the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of the capital Damascus, on November 17, 2016. Douma, the largest town in the Eastern Ghouta area with more than 100,000 residents, is surrounded and regularly shelled by regime forces. / AFP PHOTO / Abd Doumany