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TASS
March 30, 2018
MOSCOW, March 30. /TASS/. Over 35,000 refugees have returned to the provinces of Aleppo and Deir ez-Zor with the assistance of the Center for the Reconciliation of the Warring Sides in Syria, Head of the Russian General Staff's Main Operations Department Colonel-General Sergei Rudskoy said onÃâà...
Enab Baladi
March 29, 2018
The official numbers by the Syrian regime's government show that the battles in the neighborhoods of eastern Aleppo inflicted damage onto 70% of the buildings; other government reports confirmed that 30% of the buildings have major damage and need to be rehabilitated before receiving residents.
fox4kc.com
March 28, 2018
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Two films from opposite sides of the cinematic universe are now streaming. Shawn and Russ let us know if the latest in the "Star Wars" franchise and a harrowing war documentary are worth your time. 1) STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (PG-13). Walt Disney. RUSS. Is the Force with theÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 28, 2018
Hundreds of people have come to the central square in Aleppo to take part in a rally against the Turkish military operation in Afrin, according to the Syrian news agency SANA. They demanded that Ankara withdraw its troops from Syrian territory. They also reportedly held banners condemning the US andÃâà...
CTV News
March 15, 2018
Residents walk through the rubble of the once rebel-held Salaheddine neighborhood in the eastern Aleppo, Syria, Jan. 20, 2017. (AP / Hassan Ammar). 0. Advertisement. Residents walk through the rubble of the once rebel-held Salaheddine neighborhood in the eastern Ãâ÷ Seven years of civil war in Syria. For SyriansÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 15, 2018
Carla Ortiz: If you saw Aleppo in December 2017 – a year after its liberation – you wouldn't believe your eyes! They were finally able to celebrate Christmas, children were back in school and were finally rebuilding their lives! Is this about politics, or their president or their army? No, it is about normal humansÃâà...
IVN News
March 15, 2018
I've seen all the ways over the years in which the government in Washington violates its own charter, the U.S. Constitution, and hardly even tries to keep up appearances anymore that it is even trying to follow its own laws. I've seen all the ways in which state and local governments steal money from theirÃâà...
EL PAÍS in English
March 15, 2018
Omar has gotten used to living in hiding. His life is consumed in the shadows, just like the candle that he lights every night in an emergency exit located inside a network of tunnels under the cluster of residential buildings, office space and department stores known as Azca, Madrid's financial district.
Al-Manar TV
March 14, 2018
Pro-Syrian government forces shelled Turkish positions in northern Syria on Wednesday in response to a Turkish air strike that killed five of their fighters, a pro-government commander said to Reuters. The Syrian fighters used artillery to target the Turkish positions in the town of Marea, north of Aleppo, theÃâà...
New York Times
March 13, 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...
InfoMigrants
March 6, 2018
Mohammed Kteish, who is now 16, began to build the city of his dreams on paper in his free time when he was still living in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Prior to the war, Mohamed was building a model of the city on the roof of his family home, but after the violence and bombings began, he had to move theÃâà...
The National
March 6, 2018
At the outset of his new book The Field of Blood: The Battle for Aleppo and the Remaking of the Medieval Middle East, historian Nicholas Morton lays the ideological groundwork for his contention that the “Ager Sanguinis”, the battle called “the Field of Blood” in 1119, was a key moment on which the historyÃâà...
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...
Deadline
March 5, 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...
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 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 28, 2018
WASHINGTON — Kareem Abeed, producer of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Last Men in Aleppo,” has been granted a travel visa that will allow him to attend the Oscars after all, after an appeal was made to the State Department, a spokesman for the movie said on Wednesday. Abeed, who initiallyÃâà...
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...
AMN Al-Masdar News
December 31, 1999
BEIRUT, LEBANON (2:10 A.M.) – The jihadist civil war in northern Syria has recently intensified, with both Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham and Jabhat Tahrir Souriya trading offensives in the Idlib, Aleppo, and Hama governorates. On Monday, Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham would get the better of the two jihadist groups,Ãâà...
The Independent
December 31, 1999
“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...
Christian Science Monitor
December 31, 1999
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 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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