In brief, Aleppo (where I am writing now) is a big industrial city. There are food, water and communications systems (I am using a USB 3G wireless modem), also electricity from local private AC generators (beside batteries that every family also have with inverter/charger sets). But because of war, the prices had to go up 10 fold if not 20 on hard days.
It is divided into two main parts. The part in which the multi-cultural Syrian society live is protected by the National Syrian forces. The Islamist part is controlled by multi-national mercenaries of Al-Qaeda (or whatever their Islamist name is). My actual small apartment (on the roof) is near the hot-line border which didn't change since it was created in March 2012. Yes, between March 2011 and March 2012, the millions (about 4) in Aleppo were thinking that the Arab Spring that was launched against the people in Tunisia then against Egyptians followed by those of Libya will not hit their city. They didn't know that their city was one of the main targets of the 9/11 Terror Show that was opened by Obama (by playing the World's Supreme Judge) also against Syria in March 2011. After all, Aleppo is the industrial capital of Syria; in other words if Aleppo became fully under the control of Al-Qaeda (that Bush and Bin-Laden have introduced to the world with a great success on 9/11/2001) Syria would cease to exist.
I don't hear of children starving, at least on the side I live (we still feed our cats and dogs

). This might happen in the other part of the city which is destroyed almost completely and as I said is controlled by non-Syrian military Islamist leaders.
But I witnessed the cases of many civilians who were the targets of professional paid snipers (among the moderate rebels, as called in America

).
Last week, my neighbourhood was hit more than normal (and randomly as always) by about 10 heavy missiles daily (the nearest ones were about 40m from my room). But in the last 2 days, it became rather calm and I wonder why and for how long!
Finally, I ask myself: Will the "International Society" succeed, at the end, in making Syria a fanatic radical Islamist base (as Saudi Arabia; the very close ally of the American Evangelists on power) as it made most part of Palestine a fanatic radical Jewish base? Time will tell
