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ralph0

As Syria Cease-Fire Strains, Fearful Aleppo Prepares for War's Return - WSJ - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 03 Mar 16
     
    I fear that this article might hold some truth. Aleppo has been a fighting zone in the past couple of weeks, and with the regime retaking control, the fear has been that the city will fall under siege. Aleppo is my hometown, and I am interested to compare what I read to what I hear from people back there.
natphan

Militants shell Aleppo, killing 16, injuring dozens amid fragile Syria ceasefire - 0 views

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  • natphan on 26 Apr 16
     
    Al-Qaeda-linked militants have shelled the Syrian city of Aleppo, killing 16 people and injuring 86, state news agency SANA reports, as the fragile ceasefire is being threatened by resurging violence. A source at Aleppo police command told SANA on Monday that shells fired by al-Nusra fighters landed in Aleppo's al-Sulaimaniyeh neighborhood, claiming lives of four, three of them children, and injuring 19 others, many in critical conditions.
fcastro2

A daring plan to rebuild Syria - no matter who wins the war - Ideas - The Boston Globe - 0 views

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  • The first year of Syria’s uprising, 2011, largely spared Aleppo, the country’s economic engine, largest city, and home of its most prized heritage sites. Fighting engulfed Aleppo in 2012 and has never let up since, making the city a symbol of the civil war’s grinding destruction
  • Rebels captured the eastern side of the city while the government held the wes
  • , residents say the city is virtually uninhabitable; most who remain have nowhere else to go
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  • In terms of sheer devastation, Syria today is worse off than Germany at the end of World War II
  • ven as the fighting continues, a movement is brewing among planners, activists and bureaucrats—some still in Aleppo, others in Damascus, Turkey, and Lebanon—to prepare, right now, for the reconstruction effort that will come whenever peace finally arrives.
  • In a glass tower belonging to the United Nations’ Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, a project called the National Agenda for the Future of Syria has brought together teams of engineers, architects, water experts, conservationists, and development experts to grapple with seemingly impossible technical problems
  • It is good to do the planning now, because on day one we will be ready,”
  • The team planning the country’s future is a diverse one. Some are employed by the government of Syria, others by the rebels’ rival provisional government. Still others work for the UN, private construction companies, or nongovernmental organizations involved in conservation, like the World Monuments Fund
  • As the group’s members outline a path toward renewal, they’re considering everything from corruption and constitutional reform to power grids, antiquities, and health care systems.
  • Aleppo is split between a regime side with vestiges of basic services, and a mostly depopulated rebel-controlled zone, into which the Islamic State and the Al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front have made inroads over the last year
  • The population exodus has claimed most of the city’s craftsmen, medical personnel, academics, and industrialists
  • It took decades to clear the moonscapes of rubble and to rebuild, in famous targets like Dresden and Hiroshima but in countless other places as well, from Coventry to Nanking. Some places never recovered their vitality.
  • Of course, Syrian planners cannot help but pay attention to the model closest to home: Beirut, a city almost synonymous with civil war and flawed reconstructio
  • We don’t want to end up like Beirut,” one of the Syrian planners says, referring to the physical problems but also to a postwar process in which militia leaders turned to corrupt reconstruction ventures as a new source of funds and power
  • Syria’s national recovery will depend in large part on whether its industrial powerhouse Aleppo can bounce back
  • The city’s workshops, famed above all for their fine textiles, export millions of dollars’ worth of goods every week even now, and the economy has expanded to include modern industry as well.
  • Today, however, the city’s water and power supply are under the control of the Islamic State
  • Across Syria, more than one-third of the population is displaced.
  • A river of rubble marks the no-man’s land separating the two sides. The only way to cross is to leave the city, follow a wide arc, and reenter from the far side.
  • Parts of the old city won’t be inhabitable for years, he told me by Skype, because the ground has literally shifted as a result of bombing and shelling
  • The first and more obvious is creating realistic options to fix the country after the war—in some cases literal plans for building infrastructure systems and positioning construction equipment, in other cases guidelines for shaping governanc
  • They’re familiar with global “best practices,” but also with how things work in Syria, so they’re not going to propose pie-in-the-sky idea
  • If some version of the current regime remains in charge, it will probably direct massive contracts toward patrons in Russia, China, or Iran. The opposition, by contrast, would lean toward firms from the West, Turkey, and the Gulf.
  • At the current level of destruction, the project planners estimate the reconstruction will cost at least $100 billion
  • Recently a panel of architects and heritage experts from Sweden, Bosnia, Syria, and Lebanon convened in Beirut to discuss lessons for Syria’s reconstruction—one of the many distinct initiatives parallel to the Future of Syria project.
  • “You should never rebuild the way it was,” said Arna Mackic, an architect from Mostar. That Bosnian city was divided during the 1990s civil war into Muslim and Catholic sides, destroying the city center and the famous Stari Most bridge over the Neretva River. “The war changes us. You should show that in rebuilding.”
  • Instead, Mackik says, the sectarian communities keep to their own enclaves. Bereft of any common symbols, the city took a poll to figure out what kind of statue to erect in the city center. All the local figures were too polarizing. In the end they settled on a gold-colored statue of the martial arts star Bruce Lee
  • “It belongs to no one,” Mackic says. “What does Bruce Lee mean to me?
  • is that it could offer the city’s people a form of participatory democracy that has so far eluded the Syrian regime and sadly, the opposition as well.
  • “You are being democratic without the consequences of all the hullabaloo of formal democratization
  • A great deal of money has been invested in Syria’s destruction— by the regime, the local parties to the conflict, and many foreign powers. A great deal of money will be made in the aftermath, in a reconstruction project that stands to dwarf anything seen since after World War II.
  • fcastro2 on 23 Feb 15
     
    While it is still unclear as to who will win the Syrian conflict, there are people who are already looking towards the future and a better Syria. Plans are being made but, of course, these plans will entirely depend on who wins the war. 
ralph0

Truck bomb in Syria's Aleppo kills 23, including fighters: monitor - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 27 Jan 16
     
    More violence in Aleppo, Syria. This is on the activity of Ahrar al-Sham in the Northern parts of Syria.
ralph0

Nusra boosts presence in Aleppo: activists | News , Middle East | THE DAILY STAR - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 27 Jan 16
     
    Nusra moving troops into Aleppo although it was said that the government was gonna launch an attack to recover the territory it had lost in the city.
ralph0

Syrian rebels losing grip on Aleppo | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 04 Feb 16
     
    Assad regaining control of Aleppo, as pro-government forces manage to force the opposition out.
ralph0

IRIN Middle East | Syria aid deal? What about Aleppo? | Syria | Conflict - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 12 Feb 16
     
    This is linked to another page that I saved. There was an agreement to send more humanitarian aid to Syria, where needed. However, Aleppo has been a location of turmoil of late and it is excluded from the list.
ralph0

Caucasus Emirate in Syria highlights role in Aleppo fighting | The Long War Journal - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 11 Mar 16
     
    Caucasus Emirate is another al Qaeda-linked group that is fighting in Syria, Aleppo more specifically. I was surprised by how much detail was divulged by the group about their role in the fighting.
ralph0

Aleppo district shelled with chemical gas - reports - RT News - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 07 Apr 16
     
    Islamist & FSA factions are now allegedly shelling a neighborhood in Aleppo with chemical weapons. The smoke used was yellow in color and believed to be a phosphorus weapon.
ralph0

Witness the stunning devastation inside Aleppo's destroyed souks - The Washington Post - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 01 Apr 16
     
    This is an article with pictures of Aleppo, my hometown. I know most of these places, and the pictures are surreal. I cannot believe the level of destruction that has affected the city.
ralph0

Syria peace talks falter as army presses Aleppo - ARA News - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 04 Feb 16
     
    The events from my previous post have led to growing doubts pertaining to the current peace talks as the government presses for control of Aleppo.
malshamm

Russian-backed Aleppo offensive 'kills hundreds' - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

www.aljazeera.com/...-hundreds-160210125133355.html

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  • malshamm on 10 Feb 16
     
    Russia air force killed hundred of civilian in Aleppo. that kind of act opposite the goal which attacking ISIS in syria war .
ralph0

United Nations News Centre - Syria: water restored in Aleppo after a 48-day shutdown, U... - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 07 Mar 16
     
    It is a relief to see that water is finally making it back to Aleppo. The city has been under siege and civilians have been deprived of water. This article makes a valid point, showing that water has been used as a weapon of war.
joepouttu

Syrian Kurds say jihadists used phosphorus in chemical attack in Aleppo - RT News - 0 views

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  • joepouttu on 08 Mar 16
     
    It is confirmed that yellow phosphorus gas has been used by jihadists in Aleppo. Violence has continued to persist here despite the cease fire. 
joepouttu

Islamist Rebels Shoot Down Syrian Warplane - WSJ - 0 views

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  • joepouttu on 06 Apr 16
     
    Islamist rebels have shot down a Syrian government warplane near Aleppo. The truce was already being loosely enforced, but this will likely bring to the truce to an end, as Syrian forces are now preparing for an attack on Aleppo. 
ralph0

American strike kills ISIS prince in Aleppo - ARA News - 0 views

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  • ralph0 on 01 Apr 16
     
    More successful attempts to disrupt the established territories of ISIS. This is news that another prominent member of the group was killed. Again, this was a US airstrike, showing that US involvement in the area is becoming more effective.
Briana S

To Stop ISIS in Syria, Support Aleppo - 0 views

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  • Briana S on 15 Sep 14
     
    President Obama's speech last week signaled a likely expansion into Syria of American airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, yet offered little indication of an immediate strategy to halt ISIS' gains there. Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and considered to be in the most strategic position. Syria apparently has been dealing with ISIS much more severely than Iraq.
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