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The Guardian
April 29, 2018
There are scents that make you happy, scents that excite you and scents that instantly take you back to childhood. For Imad Alarnab, the smell of cumin and mint will always remind him of cooking in the grand courtyard houses of Damascus, covered with jasmine, fruit trees and blankets of sunlight. He wasÃâà...
RT
April 29, 2018
Citing a military source, it said that “a new aggression with hostile missiles” took place at around 10:30 pm local time, targeting military positions in the Hama and Aleppo villages. A Syrian law enforcement source told RIA Novosti that the army's munition depots were hit, in what was most likely an airstrike.
Sputnik International
April 28, 2018
The eight-year old native of Aleppo rose to prominence in 2016 thanks to a series of tweets posted from her account during a Syrian government offensive aimed at retaking the city. In these messages written in surprisingly fluent English, the rising Twitter star blasted Syrian President Bashar Assad andÃâà...
ITV News
April 27, 2018
An eight-year-old girl has been recognised for her efforts highlighting the plight of Syrians by live-tweeting from the ground in Aleppo during the civil war. Bana al-Abed, who was seven at the time, is being awarded the Rising Star at The Asian Awards for bravely sharing "her perspective on one of theÃâà...
AMN Al-Masdar News
April 26, 2018
BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:40 P.M.) – A motorcycle bomb has been detonated at marketplace in the Syrian border town of Al-Ghandorah (near Jarablus city) in northern Aleppo province. Early reports on casualties are still somewhat vague, however several people are believed to have been killed and insuredÃâà...
New York Times
April 16, 2018
Fourteen months after they were forced to evacuate the last neighborhoods of Aleppo, they are reliving their trauma from southern Turkey, where they have been spending hours online encouraging activists and rebels in the Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus, the Syrian capital, and helping toÃâà...
Haaretz
April 14, 2018
An explosion occurred on Saturday night at a weapons depot in the Syrian city of Aleppo, Iranian media outlets reported. Al-Arabiya reported that the facility was used by Hezbollah and pro-Iranian militias. Hezbollah-affiliated media outlets said the reports referred to a controlled explosion. To reallyÃâà...
HuffPost
April 14, 2018
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A huge blast was heard in a Syrian government-controlled area in a rural region south of Aleppo, the Britain-based war monitor The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. The Observatory said the cause of the explosion was unknown, as well as its target. DownloadÃâà...
News Deeply
April 12, 2018
The Aleppo Project website publishes policy papers based on consultations, focus-group sessions and meetings with residents. We have also surveyed about a thousand people. We ask about their memories of the city, what places were special to them, what they think about home, where they are now,Ãâà...
Malaysian Christian News
March 26, 2018
BEIRUT: In a press release, the Maronite diocese of Aleppo notes that the "The tomb of Saint Maron has not been destroyed". This follows reports yesterday that Turkish planes had destroyed a Christian UN heritage site that included the burial place of the holy hermit. "Declarations [about the destruction]Ãâà...
AMN Al-Masdar News
March 26, 2018
BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:00 P.M.) – Heavy clashes between Al-Qaeda affiliate militia Ha'yat Tahrir al-Sham (better known by its former name, Jabhat al-Nusra) and rival Islamist group Jabhat Tahrir Souriya continue in the western countryside of Aleppo province. In line with its aggressive military doctrine,Ãâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 25, 2018
'Aleppo's Artery': A Route Paved with Death, A Money Well for Pro-Regime Militias ... In 2014, Syria's regime managed opening up a new off-road gateway into Aleppo city. Damascus loyalists then dubbed the route, “Aleppo artery,” after opposition factions had cut off the Aleppo-Damascus main road.
Hurriyet Daily News
March 18, 2018
A convoy of Turkish Armed Forces entered Syria on March 17 to establish a new observation point in northwestern Aleppo. The military convoy has safely reached the Anadan district of Aleppo. Turkish troops have camped at a hill in a village of Anadan as the northern countryside of Aleppo and the areaÃâà...
New York Times
March 12, 2018
In the pivotal battle for the northern city of Aleppo a year and a half ago, a government advance that divided the rebel-held pocket in two signaled the beginning of the end for insurgents. The sense of chaos has grown in recent days in eastern Ghouta. Government advances have sent residents fleeing intoÃâà...
Haaretz
March 12, 2018
The women of Aleppo had no reason to celebrate International Women's Day this year, even though the Lebanese news site rasif22 dubbed Aleppo “the women's republic.” In the quarters of the ruined city, liberated about four months ago from rebel militias, few men can still be seen. Most were killed orÃâà...
Al-Manar TV
March 9, 2018
German parliamentary delegation visited on Thursday the city of Aleppo and inspected the great scale of destruction caused by terrorism and the efforts exerted to rebuild the city. Members of the delegation also toured the residential neighborhoods of Aleppo and met its citizens who talked about the difficultÃâà...
Cyprus Mail
March 5, 2018
At that point, if the siege of eastern Aleppo is any guide, there will be no massacre of civilians (who will again turn out to be around a quarter of the number claimed to be present during the siege). The remaining fighters will be allowed to surrender and may be transported to some other rebel-held enclave,Ãâà...
The National
March 5, 2018
The White Helmets chief said the situation in Eastern Ghouta was worse even than in rebel-held eastern Aleppo at the end of 2016 amid the government's successful campaign to retake the city. “Aleppo was very tough, but East Ghouta is worse because we have more civilians in a small geographicÃâà...
PRESSTV
March 5, 2018
A Syrian official says power supply in the northern city of Aleppo will see a rise this year as Iran is helping the country repair its infrastructure, which has been devastated by seven years of foreign-backed militancy. Mohammed al-Saleh, the director general of the state-owned Aleppo power company,Ãâà...
Haaretz
March 4, 2018
The power supply in Syria's Aleppo will be boosted this year thanks to new capacity installed by its ally Iran, a step towards reviving the industrial hub whose electricity grid has been destroyed in seven years of war, a Syrian official said. The five power generation plants are part of a deal penned last year byÃâà...
The Daily Star
March 4, 2018
ALEPPO, Syria: The power supply in Syria's Aleppo will be boosted this year thanks to new capacity installed by its ally Iran, a step toward reviving the industrial hub whose electricity grid has been destroyed in seven years of war, a Syrian official said. The five power generation plants are part of a dealÃâà...
Deadline
March 4, 2018
The producer of Feras Fayyad's Academy Award-nominated documentary Last Men in Aleppo had almost given up on attending the show after his visa request was denied under President Donald Trump's travel ban on citizens of eight countries, most of them Muslim-majority. “Up until the last minute, weÃâà...
The Straits Times
March 4, 2018
ALEPPO, SYRIA (REUTERS) - The power supply in Syria's Aleppo will be boosted this year (2018) thanks to new capacity installed by its ally Iran, a step towards reviving the industrial hub whose electricity grid has been destroyed in seven years of war, a Syrian official said. The five power generationÃâà...
Christian Science Monitor
March 2, 2018
Mahmoud, who wants to only use his first name to protect his family, is one of the White Helmets rescue workers portrayed in the documentary "Last Men in Aleppo." He survived a devastating offensive in eastern Aleppo that the government recaptured in 2016. Since then, Syria became one of the countriesÃâà...
The Independent
March 1, 2018
“We cannot afford to have the luxury of giving up. So any type of feeling that the UN is frustrated: forget it. “Otherwise, [the Eastern Ghouta assault] becomes a copycat of Aleppo,” he said. The siege of Aleppo ended in December 2016 after a massive Russian-backed bombing campaign. Civilians and rebelÃâà...
The Independent
March 1, 2018
“We cannot afford to have the luxury of giving up. So any type of feeling that the UN is frustrated: forget it. “Otherwise, [the Eastern Ghouta assault] becomes a copycat of Aleppo,” he said. The siege of Aleppo ended in December 2016 after a massive Russian-backed bombing campaign. Civilians and rebelÃâà...
Variety
February 25, 2018
WASHINGTON — Feras Fayyad, the director of the documentary “Last Men in Aleppo,” says that a Russian media effort to discredit the movie isn't only aimed at undermining its Oscar chances and the freedom of filmmakers. “It is about bigger than me as a director,” he tells Variety's “PopPolitics” onÃâà...
NPR
February 23, 2018
"And Aleppo — it's my city, where I know every single street and every single store." In 2015 and 2016, Fayyad and his crew followed a group of self-appointed rescue workers called White Helmets. The film has been nominated for an Oscar in the documentary category, making it the first Syrian film toÃâà...
Catholic News Agency
February 21, 2018
Aleppo, Syria, Feb 21, 2018 / 03:23 pm (Aid to the Church in Need).- Annie Artin, 15, is a lonely girl who lives with her mother, Silva Owadis, 37, her grandmother, and aunt in a modest but new apartment in Aleppo, Syria. The family has lived there since the middle of 2016, after moving a number of times, each time becauseÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
“My fear is the Syrian government will say the place is filled with 'terrorists' and therefore you can wage war like they did during the sieges in Aleppo and eastern Ghouta … Yes, there are bad guys wearing beards, but there are many more women and children and they deserve protection. You cannot wageÃâà...
Al-Manar TV
December 31, 1999
Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Saturday that over 800,000 people have returned to the Syrian city of Aleppo and its suburbs, liberated from Nusra Front terrorist group. “The province of Aleppo illustrates the efficiency of the work of the Russian reconciliation center for Syria. Over 800,000 peopleÃâà...
The Guardian
December 31, 1999
My film, Last Men in Aleppo, is one of the nominees for best documentary feature. It was shot during the 2015-2016 siege of Aleppo, when the Assad regime fought to seize control of the city with the help of its ally, Russia. Throughout this time, the citizens of Aleppo were cut off from food and medicalÃâà...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
Two years ago, Assad's forces, then as now backed by Russia and Iran, besieged the eastern part of Aleppo, a section of the historic city that was then home to about 200,000 people. They bombarded it, destroyed it, and seized it from the rebels in December 2016. Those rebels, Islamist groups and others,Ãâà...
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