A Syrian child plays in the snow after her family arrived from the rebel-held pockets of Syria's northen city of Aleppo to the opposition-controlled Khan al-Assal region, west of the embattled city, arrive on December 22, 2016. More than 4,000 fighters left rebel-held areas of Aleppo, the Red Cross said , in the "last stages" of an evacuation clearing the way for Syria's army to retake the city. A week into the rebel withdrawal from the east of Syria's second city, the evacuation of fighters and civilians from the one-time opposition stronghold appeared to be reaching its final hours. / AFP PHOTO / Baraa Al-Halabi