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Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 11, 2016
Russia declares daily three-hour Aleppo cease-fires to let in aid
Russia said on Wednesday there would be daily three-hour cease-fires in Syria's Aleppo starting Thursday to allow humanitarian convoys to enter the city safely, a proposal the United Nations said it would consider.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 10, 2016
Syrian regime, Hezbollah allies blast Aleppo rebel positions but gains denied
Syrian government forces and their allies bombarded insurgents in southwestern Aleppo on Tuesday, close to where rebels recently opened a corridor into the city's opposition-held eastern sector, pro-Damascus media reported.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 18, 2016
Syrian regime seizes key road into rebel-held Aleppo, besieging 300,000
Syria's army and allied militia fighters seized the only road into the rebel-held part of Aleppo on Sunday, tightening a siege around opposition areas of the northern city, which President Bashar Assad has pledged to recapture.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 12, 2016
Rebels hit Syria regime targets after key Aleppo corridors are cut
Rebels attacked Syrian government positions in the historic center of Aleppo on Monday in response to an offensive that cut a road leading into the opposition-held sector of the city, monitors and insurgents said.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 23, 2016
Russian planes pound rebel-held areas of Aleppo
Airstrikes hit the only road into rebel-held areas of Aleppo city on Sunday in the heaviest bombing since February, a rebel official and monitors said, jeopardizing access where around 300,000 Syrians live.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 9, 2016
Syrian warplanes wage counterattack as rebels advance near Aleppo
Syrian warplanes attacked Islamist militants near the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, both sides said, as the government tried to push back a insurgent advance in the area.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 4, 2016
Monitor says rebel rockets killed 19 in Aleppo, hit maternity hospital amid clashes with regime
Rebels bombarded government-held areas of Aleppo with rockets on Tuesday, killing 19 people and hitting a hospital, while also launching a ground assault on army-held positions of the divided city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 12, 2016
Syria regime sends reinforcements to Aleppo; Iran troop deaths reported
The Syrian army was on Monday reported to be sending reinforcements to Aleppo, where renewed fighting is threatening a fragile truce in the run-up to the next round of peace talks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 24, 2016
Islamic State puts squeeze on Aleppo ahead of truce; Russian airstrikes intensify
Islamic State fighters were reported to have tightened their grip on a Syrian government supply route to Aleppo on Tuesday as the army battled to retake the road as part of its campaign to seize the city.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 23, 2016
U.N. deputy secretary-general urges Turkey to keep border open if Aleppo strife sparks mass flight
U.N. second in command Jan Eliasson said on Monday he was discussing with Turkish officials whether they can open the border to the thousands fleeing fighting in Aleppo in case the violence reaches where they are huddled on the Syrian side.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 12, 2016
Russia warns of interminable or world war if Syria talks fail, U.S., Arab armies go in
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev raised the spectre of an interminable or a world war if powers failed to negotiate an end to the conflict in Syria and warned against any ground operations by U.S. and Arab forces.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 8, 2016
Education piecemeal, risks rife in besieged Aleppo's basement schools
At the unofficial schools run by Syrian activist group Kesh Malek in opposition-held districts of Aleppo, the children don't go outside to play during breaks in case a barrel bomb should drop from the sky.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 1, 2015
Syrian barrel bomb raid believed killed dozens of civilians; U.N. slams attack, ups toll
A Syrian air force raid killed at least 59 civilians at a market in a town held by Islamic State militants in northern Syria on Saturday, according to a monitoring group.
WORLD
Jun 1, 2015
Islamic State captures key area near Turkey, Aleppo supply route from Syria rebels
Islamic State fighters advanced against rival insurgents in northern Syria on Sunday, capturing areas close to a border crossing with Turkey and threatening their supply route to Aleppo city, fighters and a group monitoring the war said.
WORLD
Dec 15, 2014
Syrian army recaptures territory north of Aleppo in fierce fighting
Syria's army seized an area north of Aleppo on Sunday and killed insurgents as fierce battles raged over the strategic territory, a group monitoring the war and state media reported.
WORLD
Dec 9, 2014
Rockefeller's memory endures at Aleppo hotel as fighting intensifies
The Baron Hotel in the battered Syrian city of Aleppo is packed with memories for owner Armen Mazloumian that bullets and bombs can never destroy.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2014
A broken man living on dreams pulls Japan into Islamic State hostage drama
When Haruna Yukawa was captured in Syria earlier this month, a video apparently released by his captors showed them pressing the Japanese man to answer questions friends say he had struggled with for years: Who are you? Why are you here?
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 24, 2013
Medical heroes who labor in Syria
Good, moderate, responsible people on the ground in Syria should not be forgotten. These doctors and nurses embody an unyielding sense of hope and perseverance.

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