(Guardian-UK) Editorial - In the battle for Aleppo, the regime holds the west of the city, and 4,000 Free Syrian Army fighters the east. The rebels openly acknowledge that their presence is contested by much of the city's population. The fighters are not seen here as liberators, but as harbingers of terrible suffering to come. Aleppines blame the FSA for military operations in their city, rather than Damascus for its brutal response, and the rebels are by their own admission not getting the support in the city that they got in the countryside.
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