What I’ll remember from four days in Aleppo
Power cuts, stopped clocks and no school: just another day in the life of the people of Aleppo, which has been devastated by Syria’s war.
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Power cuts, stopped clocks and no school: just another day in the life of the people of Aleppo, which has been devastated by Syria’s war.
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum is given a tour around Aleppo, Syria. Some areas are still in the hands of the Free Syrian Army, but they are squeezed between IS militants and the Syrian regime.
At least half of Aleppo’s Armenians have left the country. Once again, their community is divided and endangered. And once again, they regard Turkey as the chief cause of their problems.
Thoughts of war are put to one side for a few hours at a daytime disco providing some relief for students in Aleppo, Syria.
Syria’s biggest city has been ravaged by two years of fighting, forcing families to move regularly and camp out in buildings without walls. Here are some of their stories.
Syria’s second city has seen some of the fiercest fighting of the civil war, but some people living there just want to forget the carnage, whatever way they can.
The physical damage to Aleppo is shocking, but the destruction of people’s lives will be much harder to repair.
Driving to Aleppo, the Springsteen song My City of Ruins began to play in my head. But Aleppo is nowhere near rising up – and it may yet have further to fall.
The world is watching Islamic State group: but the war in Syria between rebels and President Assad is as being waged as fiercely as ever, as Lindsey Hilsum reports from the shattered city of Aleppo.
Syrian rebels spend three months tunnelling under Aleppo to set off 23 tonnes of explosives, levelling the historic Carlton Hotel and killing around 100 soldiers and government militia members.
The Syrian government’s onslaught on the rebel-held northern city of Aleppo sparks an attempted exodus. Warning: the accompanying film contains distressing images.
As diplomats squabble in Switzerland, on the ground the lives of children are being moulded by the horrors of war. A new film, to be aired on Channel 4, meets five of them
A Syrian army air strike hits a vegetable market in the northern city of Aleppo and kills at least 25 people, activists say.
At least 36 people, including children, have died after Syrian army helicopters dropped improvised “barrel bombs” on the northern city of Aleppo, opposition activists say.
Crossing the line between the government-held west and the rebel-held east can prove fatal. But the people of Aleppo need to cross for basic food supplies – and they are refusing to be divided.