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Syria: Building collapse in war-damaged Aleppo kills 16
1 year, 11 months ago

Syria: Building collapse in war-damaged Aleppo kills 16

Firstpost  

Aleppo, Syria: A building collapsed Sunday in Syria’s war-damaged second city of Aleppo, killing 16 people including children, with the search for survivors extending into the night. “The number of victims of the residential building collapse… has risen to 16 dead,” said state news agency SANA. Buildings in Aleppo, Syria’s pre-war commercial hub, often collapse due to the dilapidated infrastructure …

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Ukraine War Recalls Trauma For Survivors Of Russian-Backed Sieges In Syria
2 years, 9 months ago

Ukraine War Recalls Trauma For Survivors Of Russian-Backed Sieges In Syria

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING BEIRUT — When Afraa Hashem thinks back about living through the siege of Aleppo, she remembers how inventive everyone was. In late 2016, Syrian government forces had sealed off Aleppo’s rebel-held eastern half, with 270,000 people inside, and for months they and Russian warplanes blasted it to rubble. Hashem and other Aleppo survivors on Tuesday mark the …

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Ukraine war recalls trauma for survivors of Aleppo siege
2 years, 9 months ago

Ukraine war recalls trauma for survivors of Aleppo siege

Associated Press  

BEIRUT — When Afraa Hashem thinks back about living through the siege of Aleppo, she remembers how inventive everyone was. In late 2016, Syrian government forces had sealed off Aleppo’s rebel-held eastern half, with 270,000 people inside, and for months they and Russian warplanes blasted it to rubble. “I would always wonder, ‘What is life like in that second universe?’” …

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Review: How does it feel to see your city destroyed? A new Syrian novel on Aleppo
3 years, 7 months ago

Review: How does it feel to see your city destroyed? A new Syrian novel on Aleppo

LA Times  

A Syrian man stands in the rubble of his house while others look for survivors and bodies in Aleppo in 2013. Not much happens in Faysal Khartash’s “Roundabout of Death” — although in another sense, everything does. “The pilot,” Khartash tells us, “might … decide to jettison something off to the side that razes houses or shops or mosques, and …

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