Remaining Syrian Rebel-held Aleppo Districts Possibly Hours from Falling

The fall of rebel-controlled districts of eastern Aleppo to the forces of President Bashar al-Assad is likely to prove a decisive victory in the five-year civil war. The fall has major symbolic significance and leaves the regime and its foreign backers, Russia and Iran, free to focus their military might on remaining rebel strongholds in the rest of western Syria. While rebel commanders and opposition politicians insist the loss of Aleppo won't mark the end of the uprising, few doubt...

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