The Aleppo Project
Since January 31st, intensified conflict displaced at least 70,000 people from rural villages in northern Aleppo province and eastern Aleppo city. According to REACH, 50 to 70% of the remaining population of Aleppo city could potentially leave if conditions continue to deteriorate.
The State of the Conflict
Photo: Halab TV Today, Bombed School in Ourem al-Kubra
Russian and government bombing intensified, especially in northern Aleppo countryside, as well as the western countryside, eastern districts of Aleppo and ISIS-held al-Bab town. These attacks killed over 100 and destroyed infrastructure, including schools and hospitals. Opposition groups launched several rockets into government-held Aleppo, killing dozens.
Alla al-Din Qassim, Aleppo Media Center
Kurdish forces advanced into opposition held-areas in Tal Rifaat while attempting to take A’zaz and Turkey shelled Kurdish positions, displacing thousands.
Photo: AlJazeera, EPA
Strikes on hospitals and schools killed up to 50 in Aleppo and Idlib provinces and a Russian missile severely damaged a maternity hospital in A’zaz. The ICRC called for the immediate halt of attacks on health care facilities and personnel.
Halab News Network reported about Hreitan town, just outside Aleppo city. Residents say the bombing has pushed most residents out and schools are closed.
Photo: Halab News Network
Turkish authorities report they have started erecting 1000 pre-fabricated houses for refugees in Oncupinar camp.
Life in Aleppo
Russian bombing destroyed historical houses behind Shaibani Church, al-Jalloum district, Old Aleppo.
Halab News Network
The White Helmets teach basic first aid and avoiding unexploded ordnance in western Aleppo countryside.
The Religious Affairs Directorate in the northern countryside suspended Friday prayers in mosques because of bombings.
Women Now for Development
At the Women Now For Development Center #Saraqib, women are learning to stitch wounds,
Women Now for Development
Women Now for Development
Identity of a Nation
Identity of a Nation organized a panel exploring “The challenges faced by women in liberated Aleppo.”
CNN
Aleppo’s underground hospitals. Interview with Syrian American Medical Society Doctor Iyad Azrak.
Halab News Network
Local government collecting garbage in al-Marjeh district, opposition-held eastern Aleppo.
RECONSTRUCTION
Al Souria
In 2015, the Syrian textile industry lost USD$100M. The Government’s Director of Textile Industries Nidal Abdulfattah told al-Souria that only 12 of Syria’s 25 textile factories are operating and electricity outages and the lack of raw materials and workers caused most losses.
Photo: NewZulu
Thousands ‘Run for Syria‘ in Madrid
We posted our English language data snapshot, “Do you think you will return to Aleppo?” in Arabic.