New Video Documents Utter Destruction In Old Aleppo -- Washington Post
It was as recently as May that Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, had “so far not experienced the violence and large-scale protests seen in other cities during the uprising,” as the BBC put it. The calm in Aleppo and Damascus, the capital, was among the many causes for pessimism that Syria’s then year-old and already bloody uprising would ever unseat Bashar al-Assad.
The above video of the total destruction that the fighting has wrought on Aleppo’s old quarters shows just how much the war has changed in the last six months. On Monday, for example, the Syrian military began a push into an Aleppo neighborhood now considered a stronghold of Islamist rebels.
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My Comment: Depressing.
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