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“We were able to film an airport which – contrary to the impression that has gone global – is not just open, but functioning.”
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Video footage released by activists shows Syrian rebels fighting inside the Great Umayyad Mosque of Aleppo immediately after its famous minaret is destroyed.
Marcel Mettelsiefen has spent several weeks meeting children facing unimaginable horror as they work in a city hospital on Syria’s frontline. (Contains highly distressing footage).
For Aleppo’s children “blood has become like water”. Filmmaker Marcel Mettelsiefen has spent several weeks meeting children facing unimaginable horror as they work in a city hospital.
At least 65 people are found dead with their hands bound in a district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, say activist and rebel groups.
“We were able to film an airport which – contrary to the impression that has gone global – is not just open, but functioning.”
Footage filmed in Syria’s largest city shows heavy gunfire as rebels and government forces battle for control of the airport, and President Assad appears publicly for the first time in six weeks.
A Syrian air force jet made at least a dozen rounds of a village not far from Aleppo, Syrias most populous city, firing missiles from the sky and terrifying inhabitants.
One of the few journalists reporting from Aleppo on the battle for Syria’s second city gives a vivid eyewitness account of the fighting and denies government claims that it has control of Salaheddine.
Helicopter gunships continue to bombard Aleppo in an effort to regain control of Syria’s second city from rebel fighters. But rebels remain confident after fighting off government attacks.
As the regime seeks to regain control of Aleppo, Syria’s commercial hub, fighting also flares again in the capital Damascus where another massacre is alleged to have taken place.
Aleppo is reportedly bombed by Syrian fighter jets in a blistering attack on the fourth day of clashes between government and rebel forces battling to control the commercial hub.
Troops with machine guns opened fire on rebels in Syria’s northwest commercial hub of Aleppo on Saturday amid reports of sniper fire and clashes in Damascus overnight.
Syrian state television reports 28 deaths after “terrorist explosions” in the city of Aleppo, but the Free Syrian Army tells Channel 4 News the government is seeking to distract attention from Homs.
Syria has blamed Israel for air strikes near Aleppo which are reported to have killed more than 30 Syrian soldiers and several Hezbollah fighters.
Syria has begun three days of mourning as funerals are held for the 100 people killed in one of the country’s deadliest attacks in years.