Aleppo and Mosul are bound together by history. Now they are part of a 21st century tragedy.

Just 300 miles separate Mosul, Iraq, and Aleppo, Syria, two cities very much in the news in recent months. They are in the grips of separate government-led offensives to reclaim the cities from insurgent factions. In an operation that started in mid-October, a coalition of Iraqi forces and Kurdish militia backed by the United States seized […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/12/16/aleppo-and-mosul-are-bound-together-by-history-now-they-are-part-of-a-21st-century-tragedy/