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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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&… ...
What’s happening in Aleppo marks a supreme failure of our 21st century society, of our leaders, our institutions and of the people who claim to care, says Frida Ghitis.
And when Nour Kabbach, an aid worker from Aleppo now living in Istanbul, casts her mind back, she thinks of the city’s famed 13th century Citadel, rising majestically above the Old City, ...
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.
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 ...
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.
The U.S. has the means to restrain Putin in Syria. But no one believes we will use those measures, so, in the ruins of U.S. credibility, Putin retains the bloody initiative.
What’s happening in Aleppo marks a supreme failure of our 21st century society, of our leaders, our institutions and of the people who claim to care, says Frida Ghitis.