A couple of days ago I called my cousin in Turkey, Heyam, who has her sister and daughter staying with her from Aleppo. They had come about 3 months ago to help her with her cancer treatment and then the death of her husband. I was happy that they were there and out of Aleppo,...
Tag: Aleppo
Aleppo’s Old City Now a Ghost Town
The Old City in Aleppo is a shadow of its former self after war takes its toll on world heritage site. Deborah Lutterbeck reports. The Old City of Aleppo, once a show case in Syria. Now it is a shadow of itself. Another front line of a costly civil war. Watch the video and get...
Conversations: A Road Trip to Idleb
Syria Deeply – December 05, 2012 As part of our effort to highlight civilian stories, below is a conversation between Syria Deeply and a Syrian university student. She’s from a conservative Sunni family in Aleppo. She hopes to leave the country, but first had to get a passport from her family’s registered home address in...
Syria in Ruins
The pictures at the end of this post are of Syria in ruins. While recent media attention has been focused on Hurricane Sandy and then the elctions and now the holidays- the horrific war is still going on. In some areas of Syria it has gotten worse. The aerial bombardments of civilian neighborhoods, street fighting,...
Syria Update, December 12, 2012
Syria Update December 11, 2012. (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur) Early death toll: 62 Yesterday’s Death toll: 262 killed (al-Arabiyya) 163 killed (LCC) Scud missiles were fired from Damascus province into the north of the country according to two unnamed US officials: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/official-syria-fires-scud-missiles-at-insurgents-in-the-north/2012/12/12/8774e50c-448a-11e2-8c8f-fbebf7ccab4e_story.html Syrians are dying from lack of...
News from family in Syria
I called and talked to family about a week ago. At that time we were getting emails, but they have now stopped. The last one I received said that he had gone out to try and find bread , but there was nothing to be had. He had to run to a neighbors house to...
Life in Aleppo, Syria
The war goes on and the firing of bombs hitting the buildings and people hear gun fire all night long, but they are still trying to live what can be called normal lives. I talked to my cousin today to see how they were doing and how they were handling the cold weather that was...
Syria Update, November 13, 2012
Syria Update, November 13, 2012. (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur) Death toll: More than 127 killed today including 47 unarmed civilians. Syria’s Local Coordination Committees withdrew their support from the Syrian National Council and instead shifted it to the new National Coalition for the Syrian Revolution http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2012/Nov-13/194829-syrias-lcc-stay-true-to-guiding-principles.ashx#axzz2C8Bnw2OE Aleppo province:...
Report on Syrian Crisis
I talked to a friend of my daughter today that lives in Aleppo, Zuka. We are trying to convince her to leave, but she says she can’t go by herself and leave her family behind. She is the only one in the family that has a passport. Even with a war going on you need...
Syria Update, October 14, 2012
Syria Update, October 14, 2012 (Institute of Middle Eastern, Islamic and Strategic Studies. By Sherifa Zuhur) Early death toll: 140 Syrians killed today. Saturday’s revised death toll: More than 190 Syrians killed. Aleppo province: A sniper killed 1 civilian from the Sakhour neighborhood in the Bab Hadid neighborhood and a sniper killed 1 in the...