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The destruction of Aleppo The city that used to be the commercial capital of Syria is now a site of ruin as the civil war takes its toll.
Oct. 18, 2012
Two Syrian rebels take sniper positions in the heavily contested neighborhood of Karmal Jabl in central Aleppo. The city, which once was the commercial capital of Syria, has become a battleground of house-to-house combat between rebel and government forces.
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Nov. 13, 2012
Syrian rebels of the Halab al-Shabah battalion under Al-Tawhid brigade take position during clashes with regime forces in Al-Amariya district of Aleppo. Shells are exploding somewhere in Aleppo most of the time, but after five months of fighting, people have become inured to the ever-present threat.
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Oct. 20, 2012
A Free Syria Army soldier rushes toward the man who was shot twice by a sniper.
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Oct. 20, 2012
As a man approached the other side of the street, he was shot a second time, falling to the ground. Free Syria Army soldiers crawled through the ground to reach him and pulled him toward a vehicle that rushed him to the hospital. It is not known whether he survived. Three civilians were shot on this main road in the space of three hours by the same sniper.
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Oct. 20, 2012
Members of Al-Baraa bin Malek battalion, part of the Free Syria Army's al-Fatah brigade, hit the ground as they pull a man who was shot by a sniper twice in the Bustan al-Basha district of Aleppo. Because of the risk of being shot by the sniper, no one was able to rescue the man, who eventually ran toward rebels, only to be shot by the sniper a second time. Rebels then pulled him and rushed him to a hospital, though it is not known whether he survived. Three civilians were shot on this main road in the space of three hours by the same sniper.
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Oct. 20, 2012
Free Syria Army soldiers carried the man toward a vehicle that rushed him to the hospital. It is not known whether he survived. Three civilians were shot on this main road in the space of three hours by the same sniper.
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Dec. 1, 2012
Smoke rises in the Hanano and Bustan al-Basha districts in Aleppo. The onset of this second winter since Syrians rose up against their government 22 months ago is bringing new calamity to a people already ground down by violence and war. Hunger, cold and disease are emerging as equally profound challenges to the desperate daily struggle that life has become for millions, not only in Aleppo, but across Syria.
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Aug. 6, 2012
Civilians take shelter inside a welding shop from a fighter jet circling around a neighborhood close to a Free Syria Army headquarters in the heart of Aleppo. The jet dropped four bombs, which killed seven civilians in an apartment building, including a man who burned to death inside his vehicle on the side of the road. The jet then switched to its .50-caliber machine gun before leaving the area.
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Dec. 3, 2012
Blood stains the pavement after artillery mortar shells landed on the opposite side of a bread shop operated by the civilian arm of the Free Syrian Army in the Bustan Al-Qasr neighborhood of Aleppo.
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Oct. 9, 2012
Civilians come out to survey the damage of the most recent mortar shell to hit the battered neighborhood of Sha'ar in the heart of Aleppo. Aleppo is not the only place in Syria where conditions are dire. Across the country, reports are emerging of people foraging for food in garbage, stripping buildings for firewood and queuing for hours for scarce bread as the government-run distribution network breaks down.
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Nov. 1, 2012
Syrian women and children run to the basement of a building housing several rebel fighters as regime tanks and helicopters attack their positions in Aleppo. Fighters with the Free Syrian Army surged into the city in July hoping for a quick victory after ejecting government forces from much of the surrounding countryside. But their offensive was ill-planned and premature, and it quickly stalled, leaving the city carved up into a patchwork of front lines across which the two sides shoot and shell one another, along with any civilians in the way.
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Oct. 31, 2012
A Free Syria Army soldier runs through “no man’s land” under a billow of smoke at the Karmal Jabl front in Aleppo.
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Oct. 9, 2012
Civilians, injured by mortar shells, are treated at a clinic in the heart of Aleppo.
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Oct. 31, 2012
A Syrian boy is treated from shrapnel wounds in a small clinic in central Aleppo.
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Oct. 31, 2012
Kamal, the father of an 8-year-old girl who was fatally wounded, cries while being treated in a hospital in a rebel-controlled area of Aleppo. Kamal’s family was wounded by fire from a Syrian government forces jet in the Karm al-Aser neighborhood of eastern Aleppo.
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Oct. 31, 2012
A Free Syria Army soldier reacts to the death of one of his comrades who was killed attempting to take out a Syrian army tank during intense clashes in the al-Qoob district of Aleppo.
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Oct. 31, 2012
A family member squeezes oxygen into the lungs of an 8-year-old girl who was fatally wounded by the machine gun of a Syrian government forces jet in the Karm al-Aser neighborhood of eastern Aleppo.
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