Saturday, August 20, 2016

A week in Aleppo – in pictures

The fight for control of Aleppo has intensified this week following gains made by rebel groups battling Syrian government forces. Airstrikes have destroyed several areas, killing and injuring many civilians

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  • Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh sits in an ambulance


  • Buildings destroyed by Russian airstrikes in the quarter of Salah al-Din
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    Buildings destroyed by Russian airstrikes in the quarter of Salah al-Din


  • A man covered with dust carries debris down a rubble-filled street after a reported airstrike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Sakhur
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    A man covered with dust carries debris down a rubble-filled street


  • Medics at a makeshift hospital in the Tariq al-Bab district treat a man wounded in an air raid
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    Medics at a makeshift hospital in the Tariq al-Bab district treat a man wounded in an air raid


  • Free Syrian Army fighters aim anti-aircraft artillery at Russian fighter jets in the neighbourhood of Saif al-Dawla
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    Free Syrian Army fighters aim anti-aircraft artillery at Russian fighter jets


  • The Syrian civil defence rescue a child from rubble after a regime airstrike
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    The Syrian civil defence rescue a baby from rubble after a regime airstrike


  • People walk past damaged buses positioned on top of buildings as barricades in the rebel-held Bab al-Hadid area
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    People walk past damaged buses positioned on top of buildings as barricades in the rebel-held Bab al-Hadid area


  • A man in al-Sukkari district after Syrian military jets bombarded the area
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    A man in al-Sukkari district after Syrian military jets bombarded the area


  • Rebels have recaptured positions previously taken by Syrian government forces in the Handarat Palestinian refugee camp
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    Rebels have recaptured positions previously taken by Syrian government forces in the Handarat Palestinian refugee camp


  • People leaving the Salah al-Din area in Aleppo after it was hit by airstrikes
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    People leaving the Salah al-Din area in Aleppo after it was hit by airstrikes


  • Syrian civil defence workers remove a body from the debris after a regime air raid in the al-Kalaseh neighbourhood
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    Syrian civil defence workers remove a corpse from the debris after a regime air raid in the al-Kalaseh neighbourhood


  • A Free Syrian Army member during a battle in the Sheikh Maksoud district
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    A Free Syrian Army member during a battle in the Sheikh Maksoud district
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