Aleppo Syria

• In east Aleppo, silent guns are enough to build optimism

  Children are playing and people are talking about reclaiming their lives in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

  Canada

  Jan 5, 2017
  
• Buses headed to Aleppo for evacuation attacked, burned

  Several buses en route to evacuate ill and injured people from the besieged Syrian villages of al-Foua and Kefraya were attacked and burned on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Syrian state television said.

  World

  Dec 18, 2016
  
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• UN Security Council to vote on resolution for Aleppo evacuation

  The United Nations Security Council is due to vote Sunday on a resolution aimed at ensuring that U.N. officials can monitor evacuations from besieged parts of the Syrian city of Aleppo.

  World

  Dec 17, 2016
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• Why the recapture of Aleppo could be a key moment in Syria’s bloody civil war

  The Syrian government’s expected recapture of Aleppo after a prolonged and punishing air assault is a defining moment in the country’s devastating civil war: it leaves President Bashar Assad in control of almost all major urban areas – and poised to petition for a role in the world community’s broader war against Islamic State militants...

  World

  Dec 14, 2016
• WATCH: Video shows Syria’s White Helmets pull two children from rubble

  Video footage uploaded to a social media website on Friday, Nov. 18 purports to show two children being rescued from the rubble of damaged buildings in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

  World

  Nov 19, 2016
• Dramatic video shows young Syrian girl pulled from rubble after airstrikes in Aleppo

  The video, published by activist collective Aleppo Media Center, was captured on Tuesday following airstrikes on the southeastern neighbourhood Saliheen.

  World

  Nov 16, 2016
• Syrian forces continue massive offensive in Aleppo; Assad says Trump could be ‘ally’

  As fierce bombardment by Syrian government forces continues in Aleppo, President Assad said Donald Trump could be a "natural ally," if he turned out to be "genuine" about his commitment to fight terror in Syria.

  Politics

  Nov 16, 2016
• John Kerry says Russia, Syria should face war crimes probe after attack on hospital kills 20

  John Kerry says Syrian forces struck another hospital overnight, killing 20 people and wounding 100.

  World

  Oct 7, 2016
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• Life in war-torn Aleppo documented through Twitter account of 7-year-old girl

  Every day Bana and her mother Fatemah take to Twitter to share the horrors of living in war-torn Aleppo, Syria's largest city.

  World

  Oct 4, 2016