Aleppo

Fierce fighting rages at Syria’s Aleppo prison

15 May 2013

Syrian troops backed by tanks and warplanes on Wednesday fought to repel an attack on the central prison in Aleppo after rebels blew up its walls in suicide car bombings, a watchdog said.

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Minaret of Aleppo’s ancient Umayyad mosque destroyed

25 Apr 2013

The minaret of Aleppo’s ancient Umayyad mosque was destroyed on Wednesday, Syrian state media and a watchdog reported, with the regime and the opposition blaming each other.

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No news on kidnapped Syria bishops

24 Apr 2013

Aleppo’s Greek Orthodox archdiocese said on Wednesday it had no news on two Orthodox bishops kidnapped in Syria, a day after a Christian association said the two men had been released.

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Masses flee as Syrian war claims 140 lives on Sunday, rights group says

2 Apr 2013

Fierce fighting between Syrian rebels and regime forces has sparked an exodus of residents from the Sheikh Maqsud district of the northern city of Aleppo, a watchdog group says. Violence also...

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Syria army using missiles to advance on Aleppo

23 Feb 2013

The Syrian army’s use of surface-to-surface missiles on Aleppo is part of a bid to advance on the northern city, swathes of which have fallen into rebel hands since mid-last year, a watchdog said...

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Syria rebels on offensive as UN rights chief calls for action

17 Feb 2013

Regime troops on Saturday fended off fierce rebel onslaughts around Aleppo international airport and the adjacent Nayrab military airbase, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Sixty-five people executed in Syria’s Aleppo

At least 65 people were found shot dead with their hands bound in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday in a “new massacre” in the near two-year revolt against President Bashar al-Assad,...

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Fierce fighting in Syria's north as estimated death toll tops 60,000

Furious combat raged around the main airport and a military airbase in northern Syria yesterday, a day after the United Nations gave a staggering toll of 60,000 dead in the 21-month civil war.

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Aleppo's Souk Madina now a battleground following fire

The familiar passageways have turned hostile, the comforting labyrinth now a maze of menace.

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SYRIA

Syrian rebels say they shot down fighter jet during Aleppo battle

Syrian rebels have shot down a fighter jet in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group and an army defector said.

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SYRIA

48 feared dead as car bombs explode in Aleppo, Syria

Three car bombs tore into the heart of Syria's second city Aleppo, killing almost 50 people, as the regime launched an offensive against rebels near Damascus, a watchdog said.

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SYRIAN CRISIS

Dozens killed as triple car bombs hit Syria's Aleppo

Three car bombs tore into the heart of Aleppo on Wednesday, killing at least 40 people and wounding 90, mostly soldiers, a watchdog said, as television broadcast scenes of devastation in Syria’s...

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