this Vice knes embedded with the Islamic
front defending re held deppo from both
the Syrian regime and the Islamic
State so we' been told there's an
operation planned for today for right
now we've been told to meet them here at
this deserted section of
thek let's see what
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happens Abu Marwan is a local Islamic
front Commander responsible for
defending the old Suk
G he and his men were planning to strike
a government
position just moving around the old city
means exposing yourself to
snipers to minimize the risk the rebels
have borrowed through walls Across The
Old City to act as secure route to their
front line
positions in a strange way this the
front line is actually the safest place
in the city because it's so close to
government positions
they can't use Barrel bombs for fear of
hitting their own
men what he
say run yes run really
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fast this has to run across in turns
across stretch of ground open to regime
snipers is so close like 20 me away
last person that came across the track
that's the halil of
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gunfire
let just behind these sandbags it's the
closest regime snip position have to
keep down very
low from here regime soldiers and these
spicers L grenades at each other into
this
position
uh
so
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when a US Government pressured the
Islamic front's former sponsor Kata to
stop funding islamist groups much of the
supply of weapons and ammunition to the
aleo rebels was cut
off the Islamic front at this stage in
the war every shot
counts
careful this
wall
Allah more than two years of fighting
has left a lapo in Ruins
once Syria's commercial and Industrial
Capital the 6,000 year old city is now a
ghost
town almost all of its population has
fled Rebel held areas to escape constant
and indiscriminate regime air
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strikes
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with regime and Islamic State advances
threatening to cut off the Supply route
to Turkey in the north the future looks
bleak for the Islamic front and for
aleppo's last remaining
civilians this is what so much the city
looks like now this absolute destruction
so much the cities has been pummeled by
Barrel bombs constantly every day we're
here dozens since we've been
here so much of the media tension on
syrians about foreign jihadist coming in
here but primarily this is a war fought
by syrians against syrians syrians are
the greatest casualties and no one in
the outside world really seems to
care
for
while a small trickle of weapons is
beginning to reach the ostensibly
secular FSA Rebels the Islamic front is
forced to improvised with homemade
artillery like the hell
Cannon the guys here are loading up
projectiles for a hell Cannon a hell
Canon is a kind of improvised uh Rebel
gigantic mortar really it's like a giant
metal tube um fires huge projectiles
filled with TNT TNT that's actually
harvested from Barrel bombs that haven't
exploded the government drops the bombs
here when the ones fail to work these
guys harvest the TNT and then end up
firing it back at government
lines they're loading the projectiles
now with the explosive these are
homemade just made out of cooking gas
cylinders must and
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for
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the hell cannons projectiles are as
indiscriminate in their own way as
Barrel bombs civilians are frequently
killed in government held areas by Rebel
bombardment
the war in Syria spans Generations one
of Abu maran's men fights beside his
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son
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fore
in Supply starved Aleppo teenage boys
fend off the regime with homemade
grenades my
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my these Rebels are so close to regime
positions are actually launching
grenades at them with a
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catapult
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Allah
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spee
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for
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fore