Syrian rebels crushed as Assad's troops take control of Aleppo's Old City, forcing 80,000 people to flee their homes and civil war heads towards an apocalyptic finale

[TomSea]

Syrian rebels crushed as Assad's troops take control of Aleppo's Old City, forcing 80,000 people to flee their homes and civil war heads towards an apocalyptic finale

    Regime troops have captured three-quarters of rebel territory in the Syrian city
    The blistering assault has prompted a mass exodus of east Aleppo residents
    Rebel factions proposed a five-day ceasefire for medical and civilian evacuation

By Julian Robinson for MailOnline and Afp

Published: 06:34 EST, 7 December 2016 | Updated: 06:42 EST, 7 December 2016

Syrian rebels have suffered a crushing defeat after government troops took control of Aleppo's Old City forcing 80,000 people to flee their homes.

President Bashar al-Assad's troops have captured three-quarters of opposition territory in the city as the civil war heads towards an apocalyptic finale.

The blistering assault has prompted a mass exodus of east Aleppo residents as regime forces won their most important victory yet in the bloody conflict that began in 2011.

This morning, rebel factions proposed a five-day ceasefire for medical and civilian evacuation.

After three weeks of fighting, Assad's troops appeared closer than ever to retaking all of Aleppo - a victory that could signal an end to the war.


This morning, rebel factions proposed a five-day ceasefire for medical and civilian evacuation

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[The_Reader_David]

Civil wars are like that.  Doubtless many posters with ancestors from Georgia have stories passed down about fleeing Sherman's advance.

It really is a shame that the Obama administration encouraged the "Arab Spring":  a lot of people would be alive today and next year that have died or will soon die if the traditional American foreign policy of favoring stability had been pursued instead.

[Cripplecreek]

Civil wars are like that.  Doubtless many posters with ancestors from Georgia have stories passed down about fleeing Sherman's advance.

It really is a shame that the Obama administration encouraged the "Arab Spring":  a lot of people would be alive today and next year that have died or will soon die if the traditional American foreign policy of favoring stability had been pursued instead.

The Syrian war would have been over inside of a year if we had stayed the hell out of it in the first place. We could have crushed ISIS in Iraq as they tried to flee from Syria.

[TomSea]

Even if I'm not a big fan of Assad or Russians, now, bomb specialists are entering into Aleppo to clear out bombs, ieds, etc.  And who will be doing that are specialists but still ordinary servicemen.  I've heard that ISIS left a lot of bombs behind, from what I understand, they are not going into formerly ISIS controlled areas (formerly rebel controlled) but it is surely, to have some of these devices there.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/russian-sappers-start-clearing-eastern-aleppo-mines/

(TASS) Bomb disposal specialists from Russia’s international mine-clearing center have started combing the eastern part of Syria’s Aleppo to clear it of mines and unexploded ordnance, the Rossiya-24 round-the-clock television news channel said.

The commander of the mine-clearing group, Ivan Gromov, told the channel in an interview multi-storey buildings in the area were many, so the operation will be very time-consuming.

"We spend much time on examining every tiny wire, because the effects of touching it are anyone’s guess," he explained.

The TV channel also showed Russian bomb disposal specialists in action using specially trained dogs. According to the report, the militants planted mostly makeshift bombs all over the city.