This is Aleppo today. For the last 5 years, the Syrian city has been crumbling under conflict and intense shelling from Russian-backed government forces and rebels fighting against President Assad ...
The 2016 battle for Aleppo was a turning point in the war between Syrian government forces and rebel fighters after 2011 protests against Assad’s rule turned into an all-out war. After appearing ...
Between 2012 and 2016, the battle of Aleppo was an inch-by-inch struggle over streets or single homes that left an estimated 30,000 people dead. After the rebels were finally driven out of the ...
The rule of these “rebels” has been a tragedy for the people of East Aleppo for years. That is not to say the battle of Aleppo is not also a tragedy. As in so many parts of Syria and Iraq, both ...
The Battle of Aleppo, raging since 2012, has finally taken a U-turn, as Syrian government forces backed by pro-Iranian Shiite militias captured several key areas in the militant-controlled ...
ALEPPO, Syria—Late one January night, two balaclava-clad security officers with Syria’s new government were speeding through the streets of Aleppo in pursuit of a man who had been spotted ...
The Battle of Aleppo was one of the bloodiest conflicts in the continuing war in Syria Tens of thousands of people died in the fighting in the period from 2012 to 2016 and hundreds of thousands ...
VITAL supply convoys began to reach the Syrian city of Aleppo this weekend as fierce fighting continued in the province. Four civilians — including a child — were killed in the city yesterday when a ...
According to Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), five SNA fighters were killed and eight others wounded in drone ...
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much of the trade between Europe and the Middle East passed through Istanbul or Aleppo, decreasing the importance of... The Battle of Chaldiran soon led to the region’s other pivotal battle of ...
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