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Syria: Fighting Breaks Out in Aleppo as Ceasefire Expires

HeadlineMay 13, 2016

Meanwhile, in Syria, fighting has broken out in a suburb north of Aleppo, where a temporary ceasefire between the Assad regime and opposition groups has expired. Before the ceasefire took effect Monday, Aleppo had been the site of intense fighting this month, including an airstrike on an MSF-supported hospital that killed at least 14 patients and three doctors, including one of the city’s last pediatricians. On Thursday, Aleppo resident and mother Mayada Nazrian spoke out about finally deciding to leave the city.

Mayada Nazrian: “I have been in Aleppo since I was a little girl. I got married and had my kids here. We’ve suffered through this war for five years. We’ve been patient for a year, two years, three years. We’ve lost a lot. We lost a martyr. We lost our work. We lost everything we own because of this war.”

We’ll have more on the ongoing conflict and how Syrians are organizing in the midst of the war with scholar Yasser Munif later in the broadcast.

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