Aleppo’s Children Left Behind As War Shutters Schools - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Edward Dark

Edward Dark

Oct 16, 2013

A view shows a damaged wall at a school in Aleppo January 15, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR3CHJL — A view shows a damaged wall at a school in Aleppo, Jan. 15, 2013. — REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman

A man cleans apples for sale in the city of Aleppo October 5, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman (SYRIA - Tags: FOOD SOCIETY BUSINESS) - RTR3FMF8

Aleppo's war economy

People buy potatoes from a street vendor on the first day of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar, at the Karaj Al-Hajez crossing, a passageway separating Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr, which is under the rebels' control and Al-Masharqa neighborhood, an area controlled by the regime, July 10, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST RELIGION) - RTX11J4H

Aleppo Starves Under Siege

TOPSHOT - A general view shows Syrian pro-government forces walking in the ancient Umayyad mosque in the old city of Aleppo on December 13, 2016, after they captured the area.
After weeks of heavy fighting, regime forces were poised to take full control of Aleppo, dealing the biggest blow to Syria's rebellion in more than five years of civil war.

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Return to Aleppo: A squandered legacy

Fehim Tastekin

In Paris, reporting on Turkish politics

A boy collects his belongings amidst the rubble of collapsed buildings after what activists said was shelling by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo November 24, 2013. Air strikes around the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed at least 40 people on Saturday, most of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. REUTERS/Molhem Barakat (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTX15R6Q

Aleppo braces for major regime offensive