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Battle to Death
Fabio Bucciarelli
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse
11 October, 2012
The Syrian commercial hub of Aleppo was the scene of some of the bloodiest clashes in the ongoing uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Both government and opposition forces considered control of Aleppo to be strategically important to their aims.
Fabio Bucciarelli
Fabio Bucciarelli is an Italian photographer and writer known for his documentation of conflicts and the humanitarian consequences of war. Bucciarelli feels the urgency to tell s...
Aleppo, Syria
A Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighter prepares to fire a rocket-propelled grenade against government forces, in Aleppo’s Old City.
The Syrian commercial hub of Aleppo was the scene of some of the bloodiest clashes in the ongoing uprising against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Both government and opposition forces considered control of Aleppo to be strategically important to their aims.
The FSA first seized parts of the city in July. In the months that followed, government forces battled to recapture it, with limited success. By the end of the year, the Syrian military had control over a western segment of the city, with the rebels entrenched in much of the east and south. Some of the fiercest fighting was in and around the Old City.
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