Updates, Baladi News
For a short period of time, the situation in Aleppo seemed to be quite, but that was just the lull before the storm as bombs started falling heavily on the city, forcing its people to think again whether the hour of escaping Aleppo has struck, the city which is considered the hotbed of Syrian war.
Aspects of normal life brought by the truce had disappeared as parks and streets were again deserted and residents started counting the explosions and bodies along the front lines of the city divided between the government and the opposition.
Syrian regime says that it will launch a new attack to regain control of the rebel-held areas in Aleppo in a campaign that would probably close the last road into those areas along with resuming air strikes on the opposition areas.
The opposition forces escalated the shelling on regime-held areas in the city and another neighborhood of Kurdish majority which is controlled by a militia that's also against the rebels, in an attempt to keep the strategic road open.
While the peace talks in Geneva are on the verge of collapse, rumors have spread regarding a new mobilization of additional forces on ground by the Syrian government and its allied Shiite militia, along with new recruitments in opposition rows, including "Al-Nusra Front".
On the other hand, travelling to turkey which was the destination of hundreds of thousands since 2011 is not a choice anymore because the borders are closed in front the majority of people. Abdul Munaim Jonaeid, who is working at an orphanage in an opposition-held area said: "the first choice for most people is crossing the border into Turkey, and if the borders were open, the number of the city's inhabitants would have been decreased to half".
All main parties of the multilateral Syrian war are fighting in Aleppo, including the opposition factions which are waging separate attacks against the government, Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), and ISIS near the Turkish borders.
Humanitarian agencies expressed their deep concern over the fate of dozens of thousands of Syrians who are currently beleaguered along the borders with Turkey which is already hosting about 2,5 million Syrian Refugees.