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Syria’s cities have been one of Assad’s greatest challenges. Allowing Syria’s largest cities to fall posed a grave strategic risk to his rule. Once the initial crackdown failed to break the opposition’s resistance, the regime turned to siege tactics. 1/
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Throughout the conflict, more than forty localities have been besieged, most in the suburbs of Damascus and Homs. Following Russia’s military intervention in 2015, and particularly from the summer of 2016, key sieges were intensified into air and ground assaults. 2/
The siege that broke Aleppo followed this pattern. It began in July with cutting off the crucial road leading into the northeast of the city and then tightened through the fall, before a heavy offensive forced the residents into an evacuation deal in midwinter. 3/
Today marks the 4th anniversary of the displacement of #Aleppo, which was one of the largest mass forced displacements during the conflict in #Syria, and a testament to the scale of the tragedy that the Syrian people are experiencing for more than a decade.
Aleppo was one of the oldest cities in the world & has always been an important center for trade and industry, and until recently, it remained the economic capital of Syria and the largest population center in it before it was destroyed by the Syrian regime & its allies.
The scene of the departure of residents from the eastern neighborhoods of #Aleppo, as a result of the agreement which was forced by the Russians and the Iranians, is still a witness to the systematic forced displacement operations in Syria’s modern history since 2011.
