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Question: Why are people in Syria killing each other?

Answer: People started protesting against the governemt in 2011 and were inspired by Egypt and Tunisia. The government then responded by silently killing the protestors and shooting them, the protestros just simpily shot back.

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/08/29/9-questions-about-syria-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask/?utm_term=.9cbdda76b0a6

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Question: Will Aleppo ever be rebuilt?

Answer: There is a good chance that Aleppo will be rebuilt, unfortunetely it will most likely be more of a moderen city rather than what ot used to be.

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Q: why don't people leave every time there is a cease fire
A: Either they are to poor to do anything once they get out, or they have jobs and family/ friends that don't want to leave behind

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37779478

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Question: Who were the rebels in Syria?

Answer: Free Syrian Army

Link:
http://middleeast.about.com/od/syria/tp/Who-Are-The-Syrian-Rebels.htm

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Question: Why have the prices of food inflated because of the conflict?

Answer: All of the food is running out in the city

Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37561618

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Question: Where do the orphaned kids go?
Answer: They either g oto live with other family, an underground orphanage, or people take them in that find them.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/19/aleppo-underground-orphanage-haven-children-syria-war

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Question: Why did the war start in the first place?

Answer: One of the main reasons that other countries want Aleppo is becuase of the benifit of being a major suppy line

Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37008100

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Question: Who are the ones bombing Aleppo?

Answer: Russia and the Syrian Government

Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/09/aleppo-bombings/501578/

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Question: If Etaky gave up on looking for nutritous food, is his family still alive?

Awnser: unknown

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Question: Why would you stay somewhere unsafe when you have the option to leave?

Answer: There is only one opening to go through to leave. Once out there is the machine gun that they have to pass and risk getting shot. Some people also have extended family that they don't want to leave behind.

Link: http://www.latimes.com/nation/ct-aleppo-syria-civil-war-20161023-story.html

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Question: What started the war? What caused it to get this point?

http://www.itv.com/news/2016-12-13/the-battle-for-aleppo-who-fought-it-and-what-comes-next/

Question: Why didn't they leave?
Answer: They felt it was a duty to their people, and they wanted to try and help them out.

Question: How did they connect to social media? They used phones, but how did they have wifi and stuff like that?

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Question: Why do people think the white hats are the opposition?

Answer:

The REAL Syria Civil Defence Exposes Fake ‘White Helmets’ as Terrorist-Linked Imposters.

Link: http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/09/23/exclusive-the-real-syria-civil-defence-expose-natos-white-helmets-as-terrorist-linked-imposters/

Question: What other countries/organizations are involved with the war in eat Aleppo?

Link: http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/09/23/exclusive-the-real-syria-civil-defence-expose-natos-white-helmets-as-terrorist-linked-imposters/

Answer:  A bunch of diffrent occupations help

Question:  What started the war in Aleppo?

Link: http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2016/12/15/aleppo-crisis-war-syria-explained/

Answer: The Syrian war began in March 2011 and has mainly pitted Syrian forces.

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Question: Is there a way to fix or intervene in the war?

Answer: The US is already in Syria but hasn't taken on Syria as a major responsibility because they don't want to take on too much and put more lives at risk.

Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/03/14/why-the-united-states-hasnt-intervened-in-syria/?utm_term=.111c6878551e

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Question: Why havent people feld east Aleppo?

Answer: The have become trapped by the government & terrorist organizations fighting in this war

Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37779478

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Question: What started the war?

Answer: It's a rebellion against the president and his ways.

Link: www.bbc.com/news/10338256

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Question: Why do some people chose to stay in Eastern Aleppo despite the danger?

Answer: Some people have told reporters that they feel trapped in Aleppo. Others say that since it is home, they feel obliged to stay. They feel like they have to, "share the suffering of our people and to try to help them."
Link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-37779478
Question: What was the cause of Syrias civil war?

Answer: After young boys were tortured and killed, peaceful protests erupted in Syria. The syrian government responded to the protest by killing hundreds of people. People got mad and started a rebel group to try to overthrow the government and a civil war began.
Link: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/syria-civil-war-explained-160505084119966.html

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Question: Why do they target civilians?
Answer: to cause terror amongst the people
http://civiliansinconflict.org/our-work/countries/syria/

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Question: How do the people who aren't doctors, teachers, or humanitarian workers work and make an income?

Answer: There are garbage collectors, representatives from the department of hygeine, and many medical workers, all with a salary of about 100 dollars per month

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Five years of near-continuous violence have pushed hundreds of thousands of people to flee Syria's largest city, but not all of Aleppo's residents have left. As Syria's war drags on into its sixth year, we meet some of the residents who have chosen to remain.

A general view of opposition-held Aleppo in October 2012. AP/ Manu Brabo

ALEPPO, Syria: Last May, the human rights group Amnesty International delivered a report on the Syrian city of Aleppo simply called: "Death Everywhere." It described how civilians in the city have been bombed indiscriminately so often by the Assad regime that it was a war crime.

The city, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and famed for being a key post on the Silk Road, the ancient trade route that ran from China to the Mediterranean, was until very recently the most crowded in the country, with an official population of 2.302 million in 2005.

The ancient metropolis has now been cleaved into two halves: the regime of Bashar al-Assad controls the west and the armed opposition rules the east. The west side is believed to have more than 1 million people left while around 300,000 remain on the opposition side.

As the Guardian newspaper recently wrote: "Aleppo had withstood more than six millennia of pillage and insurrection, but the past three years have damaged more of its civilisation and displaced more of its people than perhaps all its earlier conflicts."

The question is - who has stayed in this city, which is quite possibly the worst place in the world right now, and why?

For some, it has been because they have been unable to get out. Others have refused to leave - because it is home. They still believe they have a role to play in reconstructing Syria.

In order to reach safety, many displaced people have put their lives at risk - dozens have been killed and injured, including women and children, while trying to pass through the minefields placed by the Islamic State to prevent them from escaping, and many others were forced to pass through battle fronts, and the territorial borders between the Islamic State and the opposition Free Syrian Army, which have been targeted by Russian aircraft.

Um Ameen lives in a city in rural northeastern Aleppo that is under the control of the Islamic State. Um Ameen has refused her children's many attempts to convince her to come join them in Turkey.

"I will never leave my house," she said. "I have spent half of my life in this house. I know every little stone in its walls."

Her oldest son, Ameen, said he has tried countless times to convince her to join him in Turkey.

"I get very scared when I hear that there has been an air raid; every time the city gets bombed, I frantically follow the news on activists' websites," Ameen said. "My brothers and I try very hard to convince her to come and live with us, but she always refuses. We cannot stay because we cannot live under the control of the Islamic State."

Abu Hassan, a man in his fifties living in rural eastern Aleppo, refused to leave his house, and has stayed despite all the dangers that surround him, from the aerial bombardment to the harassment that he and his family face from members of ISIS.

"Politicians on all sides keep saying that the war will end soon," Abu Hassan said. "They say that Aleppo has become hell, but they don't always tell the truth. They tend to exaggerate."

His main concern is how to meet his family's daily needs, Abu Hassan said. One of his sons works in Turkey, but the rest of the family lives together in one house. "Our biggest issue is the lack of water and electricity," he said. "Everything is expensive; a five-person family needs at least $100 a month in order to have a reasonable life."

His family relies on generators to produce electricity, and in the winter, they use locally refined diesel to run generators. Abu Hassan dug a well with his neighbor next to their building to provide water.

"Yes, life is hard here, but I, and many others like me, live here in rural Aleppo alongside the bombing and the destruction. We are used to this," he said. "We still visit friends, even though we're almost always watching the news on television."

Abu Mohammed, 63, a resident of the al-Qatarji neighborhood in Aleppo city, reflected on life in Aleppo while sitting on a chair in front of the front door to his house. "We've grown accustomed to a medieval life: no water and no electricity. When the electricity comes, our kids can't believe it," he said.

"Unfortunately our lives have become cards in the hands of international players who are preventing an end to the war in Syria. As a citizen, all I want right now is some water and electricity - even just a few hours a day would do."

Many of the renewed clashes between armed opposition forces and troops loyal to embattled president Bashar al-Assad are concentrated in areas close to Aleppo's high-voltage transmission lines to the city's south. Additionally, residents said the regime's electric company has frequently and intentionally cut service to opposition-controlled areas, which consequently shuts off the water as well.

"We used to get fuel from the border areas, but ever since the regime took control of the village of Maarastah Khan, we cannot get fuel anymore," said Aya Hrietani, who lives in the al-Sukkari neighborhood in Aleppo.

"Due to lack of fuel, all electric generators stopped, which has consequently affected many other services - water pumps and bakeries stopped as well, and people are back to making their bread at home," she said. "Hospitals have also been affected: although we have hospitals and clinics that can treat any medical condition, the lack of fuel has prevented many of them from providing people with any services."

Though Aleppo has lost most of its civil servants, the few that remain work to keep the opposition-controlled neighborhoods running.

"As a school principal, leaving was never a choice for me," said Safwan Badawi, principal of Fatima al-Zahraa elementary school. "I believe that we have to educate the new generation and prepare them to, one day, build a future Syria."

Badawi holds classes in basements to avoid the constant bombing, and due to the shortage of teachers, he hires college students and high-school graduates to lead classes.

Qamar, a college student, had to quit school because of the war, so she decided to tutor elementary school children in her own house. "A whole generation has lost access to education," she said. "They have been out of school for the last two or three years; some children should be in the sixth grade, but they haven't even finished the third grade."

Around a year ago, she decided to hold tutoring sessions in reading, math and Arabic language. Qamar now has 14 students, whom she tutors for a small fee to cover her expenses, until she can go back to college.

Many teachers have fled the country because of violence, like millions of other Syrians. Others have had to give up teaching when obtaining their salary became impossible; hundreds of teachers in the province's rural areas have lost their incomes because they cannot get paid unless they travel to the city to collect their money in person.

Ameen al-Ali has been an elementary teacher in rural Aleppo for 12 years. He said his salary was put on hold because he did not show up to receive it.

"Someone sent a report to the authorities that my friend and I were with the opposition, so when we went last time to receive our salaries, the accountant told us that we could not collect them until we check in with the security department," said al-Ali, who since been forced to find an alternative form of employment.

There is a severe shortage of doctors, medical equipment and functioning hospitals, as well. The rebel-held half of the city has a mere 10 hospitals, only five of which have surgical capabilities.

"Most of the equipment we have is left over from other hospitals, and is very old," said Hamza al-Khateeb, one of the few general surgeons left in the city. "We also suffer from a shortage of staff; we have only 30 specialist physicians, and they are not always available."

Since the advent of conflict, most doctors have left the country. Available medical services are typically provided by physicians' assistants, medical school students and recent graduates who have refused to leave. Some organizations have also launched nursing training courses in order to increase the number of medical workers.

Despite the war and shortage of other services, the city of Aleppo appears somewhat garbage free, according local residents. This is thanks to the opposition's local city council, which developed a department of hygiene and hired 350 workers to collect garbage.

Abdul Aziz, 42, a department of hygiene employee, said: " We use simple tools - an old three-wheeler and some brooms. I decided to work with the department of hygiene because there was no more work for me in construction and I didn't have the resources to leave the country. We make a salary of around $100 per worker. It's barely enough to manage, but it's something."

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Those Who Remain in Aleppo, the World's Most Dangerous City

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Five years of near-continuous violence have pushed hundreds of thousands of people to flee Syria's largest city, but not all of Aleppo's residents have left. As Syria's war drags on into its sixth year, we meet some of the residents who have chosen to remain.

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Question: Why doesn't the US intervene in Syria?

Answer: The UN is not unified in the decision to intervene in Syria. China and Russia are against intervening.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/23/world/syria-intervention/

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Question: What does "beleaguered" mean?

Answer: To surround with military forces.
Link: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/beleaguered?s=t
Question: How many people have died since the war has started?

Answer: 470,000 people have been accounted for and more than 1 in 10 have been wounded.
Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/a-staggering-new-death-toll-for-syrias-war-470000/

Question: Why isn't everyone escaping Aleppo?

Answer: It's too dangerous and there aren't enough resources to survive off of if someone were to make the journey.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/journey-from-syria-to-turkey_us_56f3eb3be4b04c4c37615a26

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Question:  Does the US have any involvement

Answer: The US is closly monitoring Aleppo and is telling Russia to stand down.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/28/politics/us-aleppo-russia-syria-options/

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Quesion:
1. What is some general backround knowlwdge on the war itself?

2. Who are the islamic rebels?

3. Is the government or the rebels more corrupt?
Answer:
1. The war is between the Syrian government, The Kurdish forces (turkey, iraq, and iran), the rebel groups, ISIL (islamic state of iraq and the levant), and Russia.

2. Islamic rebel group involing the Syrian war made up of many different terrorist groups including ISIL, the taliban, and Al-Qaeda.

3. This question is all about perspective and opinion on where you stand in the war and which side you support.
Link: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/syria-war-aleppo-pounded-air-strikes-day-161116161446851.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-24403003

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