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The world is at last, reluctantly, looking at the horrors unfolding in Aleppo. The dictatorship of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, with the support of Iran, Russia, Hezbollah and other Iran ...
Aleppo’s sudden fall marks a turning point in Syria’s civil war, led by a unified rebel assault that overwhelmed both ground ...
Syrian boys cry following Russian air strikes on the rebel-held Fardous neighbourhood of the northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo on October 11. Regime ally Russia carried out its heaviest ...
Now begins a new chapter in Syria’s humanitarian crisis. Those who remain in the city fear reprisals from Assad forces. The last 35,000 civilians and rebels were evacuated from east Aleppo on ...
Christians in Aleppo now anxiously await more information about the future. Most have chosen to stay in their homes, either out of resolve or because leaving is not an option.
BEIRUT -- The Aleppo that Ibrahim al-Haj’s son Laith was born into 10 months ago is now being destroyed. The opposition-held districts of the Syrian city have been surrounded and under siege for ...
ALEPPO, Syria — Before the war, Aleppo’s ancient walled citadel drew in armies of visitors to one of the Middle East’s greatest treasures. But for the past four years the Citadel&… ...
Aleppo then and now. Scenes from Aleppo before and during the war that has decimated Syria's largest city. [1/20] A general view of damage in the Umayyad mosque of Old Aleppo, December 15, 2013.
Just 300 miles separate Mosul, Iraq, and Aleppo, Syria, two cities very much in the news in recent months. They are in the grips of separate government-led offensives to reclaim the cities from ...
Aleppo is a city on edge. Shelling pounds the key battleground daily, an unrelenting and terrifying reminder of Syria’s five-year civil war. Earlier this month, President Bashar al-Assad’s ...
An estimated 20,000 people have fled Aleppo in recent days. A few thousand remained, many trapped on buses in blizzard-like conditions, with little to eat or drink when a jittery truce broke down.
And now the U.N. is raising the alarm over access to potable water. Aleppo lost its running water supply on July 31, after attacks on an electricity transmission station that powers the city's ...