Reuters: Exclusive: Damascus vows to recapture Aleppo from rebels
Damascus aims to secure Syria's border with Turkey and recapture the city of Aleppo with its latest military offensive, a top adviser to President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday.
In an interview in her Damascus office, Bouthaina Shaaban held out little hope for diplomatic efforts to end the five-year civil war, telling Reuters proposals for a ceasefire were coming from states that "do not want an end to terrorism" and wanted to shore up insurgents who are losing ground.
The Syrian army, backed by Russian air strikes and Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, has launched a major advance in recent weeks near Aleppo, once Syria's biggest city, now divided between rebel- and government-held sectors.
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UN Warns of Crisis as Syrian Forces Squeeze Aleppo -- VOA
Syria: UN warns of siege and starvation in Aleppo -- Euronews
UN: Aleppo siege could cut off food supplies to 300,000 -- Al Jazeera
Aleppo Residents See 'Deaths Everywhere' as U.N. Issues Aid Warning -- NBC
As Syrian regime closes in on Aleppo, refugees have nowhere to go -- CBS
Assad’s grip tightens around Aleppo -- The Economist
Hoarding, Fuel Shortages Seen as Syrian Troops Near Aleppo -- AP
Assad's Aleppo raids block humanitarian aid, PM Davutoğlu says -- Daily Sabah
'If They Leave, People Are Going to Die': Doctors Press on Despite Feared, Imminent Siege of Aleppo -- Newsweek
UN agency provides food to Syrians fleeing Aleppo fighting -- UN News Centre
Why US Is Powerless To Convince Russia To Stop Bombing Syrian Civilians -- Erin Banco, IBTimes
What the fall of Aleppo would mean for Syria and the world -- Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post
Aleppo siege spells doom for West's goals in Syria: analysts -- AFP
Aleppo can be a turning point in Syria's civil war -- Luke Coffey, Al Jazeera
Aleppo's disaster and why it's so important for Syria's war, explained -- Zack Beauchamp, VOX
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"The rebel supply lines from Turkey to Aleppo have been cut, but this does not mean the end of the story. For many months, the regime’s own military authorities – along with tens of thousands of civilians, including many Christians – were trapped inside Aleppo and at the mercy of shelling and mortar fire by the Nusra fighters, who surrounded them until the army opened the main highway south.
During this period, the only way to Aleppo was by plane because the army held a tiny peninsula of territory going to the airport – I flew out one night on a military aircraft crowded with wounded Syrian troops."
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/after-entering-aleppo-with-russias-help-the-syrian-army-may-set-its-sights-on-raqqa-a6856356.html
Russian bombing is to be more feared that Al Nusrah shelling.
http://www.newsweek.com/2015/08/28/syria-war-bombing-aleppo-364035.html
The vast majority of Syrians, almost 20 million, live in Syrian Government or YPG held areas.
Aleppo has 1.2 million citizens, at the peak of the jihadi advances, the rebel enclave had 220,000 inhabitants, the Government held area, under jihadi seige, had almost a million.
Over the three years of the jihadi seige and attacks on Government held Aleppo, the Syrian Govenment managed to evacuate all but 330,000, who have refused to leave, and have kept most of the city running.
In the jihadi held enclave in Aleppo, by December last year, all but 40,000 had fled to Lebanon or Turkey, mostly because of the depredations of the jihadi's.
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