Reuters: Water a "weapon of war" in Syria's divided Aleppo
Oct 15 Through intense bombardment, seeing friends killed before her eyes and living without power, Layana Darwish stuck it out in Syria's Aleppo through four years of civil war, even completing her degree despite the devastation.
What finally drove her to leave wasn't the snipers or the bombs. It was the constant struggle to find safe water.
Civilians have borne the brunt of fighting between Syrian government forces and an array of insurgent groups in Syria's divided commercial capital, a city of two million people where upended buses and cars stacked on top of each other shield residents from sniper fire.
With the city divided between a government-controlled west and rebel-held east, both sides have been able to deprive the other of water, which the United Nations and Red Cross say amounts to using it as a "weapon of war" against civilians.
Update: Aleppo residents using mobiles ... to find water -- Arab News
WNU Editor: Both sides are now doing everything to defeat the other. Aleppo is one of the world's oldest cities (about 9,000 years old) .... it is has seen a lot in its history .... but the brutality that it is going through today is certainly unprecedented.
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