A member of the Martyr Abdallah Al Kaakeh battalion runs for cover from snipers on the front line of the conflict with forces loyal to the government. Reuters
Aleppo At War: Everyday Life In The Death Zone -- Kurt Pelda In Aleppo (Syria), Spiegel Online
Buildings burst in a hail of exploding shells, killer shrapnel tears through the air. Around the next corner, bakers work while children comb through debris for corpses. That's Aleppo today -- a city where death is part of everyday life.
In Aleppo, every footstep is a crunch. The streets are strewn with rubble and broken glass from destroyed buildings and shattered windows. It's a sound that distinguishes a walk around this war-torn Syrian town from any other city in the world.
Abu Jamal is a young fighter from Brigade North Storm, a unit of the Syrian resistance. His comrades just call him "the sniper" because he spends his days creeping over rubble and broken glass from one building to the next in search of a firing position.
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My Comment: I believe that Syria's rebels (with time) are eventually going to win .... but what will be left will be just devastated cities, a traumatized population, and sectarian hatreds that are going to take a century (if not more) to heal.
